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LST-644 / ARL-14 Minos

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - National Defense Service Medal
Achelous Class Landing Craft Repair Ship:
  • Laid down (date unknown) as LST-644 at Chicago Bridge & Iron Co., Seneca, IL.
  • Launched, 14 September 1944
  • Redesignated Minos (ARL-14), 14 August 1944
  • Commissioned USS Minos (ARL-14), 26 September 1944, LT. W. Gray in command
  • Completed conversion to an Landing Craft Repair Ship at Gibbs Gas Engine Co., Jacksonville, FL.
  • Decommissioned, 18 June 1946 at Green Cove Springs, FL.
  • Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Charleston, S.C. Group
  • Recommissioned, 22 September 1950
  • Decommissioned, 19 August 1955
  • Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Florida Group, Green Cove Springs
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1 January 1960
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 18 October 1960, to Portsmouth Salvage Co., Portsmouth, VA.
    Specifications:
    Displacement 2,220 t.(lt) 3,960 t.(fl)
    Length 328'
    Beam 50'
    Draft 11' 2"
    Speed 11.6 kts.
    Complement 255
    Armament
    2 quad 40mm AA gun mounts w/Mk. 51 directors
    2 twin 40mm AA gun mounts w/Mk. 51 directors
    6 twin 20mm AA gun mounts
    Propulsion two General Motors 12-567 diesel engines, two shafts, twin rudders
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    Minos 85k Minos (ARL-14) underway in Chesapeake Bay, circa 1951 Donald B. Canaday
    Minos 156k Minos (ARL-14) underway in Chesapeake Bay, during a refueling exercise with Proserpine (ARL-21), circa 1951. Photo taken from Proserpine. Donald B. Canaday
    Minos 83k Minos (ARL-14) underway in Chesapeake Bay, during a refueling exercise with Proserpine (ARL-21), circa 1951. Photo taken from Proserpine. Donald B. Canaday
    Minos 167k Minos (ARL-14) underway in Chesapeake Bay, during a refueling exercise with Proserpine (ARL-21), circa 1951. Photo taken from Proserpine. Donald B. Canaday
    Minos 58k Minos (ARL-14) pierside, Norfolk, Va., circa 1952. George Panos, QMS/2C USS Earle B. Hall
    Minos 75k Minos (ARL-14) moored pierside at NAB Little Creek, circa 1951-54. Photo by Michael Eberhardt Sr. USS Minos Mike Eberhardt in honor of his father Michael R. Eberhardt Sr, DKSN, USNR-R USS Minos
    Minos 63k Minos (ARL-14) moored pierside at NAV Little Creek, circa 1951-54. Photo by Michael Eberhardt Sr. USS Minos Mike Eberhardt in honor of his father Michael R. Eberhardt Sr, DKSN, USNR-R USS Minos
    Minos 74k Minos (ARL-14) at anchor in Chesapeake Bay, date unknown. Jim White SKSN, USS Minos 1952-54.
    View 1953 Minos (ARL-14) Crew Photos contributed by Jim White
    View the Minos (ARL-14)
    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center web site
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
    Fleet Reserve Association
    Contact Information
    Contact: Jim White GMSN-SKSN
    Address: 2527 Artisan Ave. Huntington,WV 25703
    Phone: (304) 523-6932
    E-mail: USS Minos (ARL-14) Crew Contact
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