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LST-1036 / ARL-11 Creon

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal
Achelous Class Landing Craft Repair Ship:
  • Laid down as LST-1036 at Boston Navy Yard, Boston, MA.
  • Launched 24 August 1944
  • Placed in partial commission, as USS LST 1036, 16 September 1944 for transit to her conversion yard at Baltimore, MD., Lt. M. G. Pooley, USNR in command
  • Decommissioned at Baltimore, 26 September 1944, for conversion to a Landing Craft Repair Ship (ARL)
  • Commissioned USS Creon (ARL-11), 27 January 1945
  • Decommissioned, 8 June 1949
  • Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego Group
  • Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown)
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
  • Creon received one battle star for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 2,220t. (lt.) 4,100t. (fl.)
    Length 328'
    Beam 50'
    Speed 11.6 Kts.
    Complement 255
    Armament
    two quad 40mm AA gun mounts w/Mk. 51 directors
    two twin 40mm AA gun mounts w/Mk. 51 directors
    six twin 20 mm AA gun mounts
    Propulsion two General Motors 12-567 Diesel engines, two shafts, twin rudders
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    Creon 66k Creon (ARL-11) at anchor, date and place unknown. Submitted by Léon F. Guyot in honor of his late father-in-law Cecil L.Colvin USS Creon, March 1945 to July 1948
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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center web site
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
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    Fleet Reserve Association
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