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LST-948 / ARL-16 Myrmidon

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 - Navy Occupation Medal (with Asia clasp)
Achelous Class Landing Craft Repair Ship:
  • Laid down, 25 August 1944, as LST-948, at Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Hingham, MA.
  • Renamed Myrmidon, 11 September 1944
  • Launched, 28 September 1944
  • Placed in reduced commission, 19 October 19, 1944 for transit to her conversion yard, Merrill Stevens Shipyard, Jacksonville, FL;.
  • Decommissioned, 10 November 1944, Jacksonville, for conversion to a Landing Craft Repair Ship
  • Recommissioned USS Myrmidon (ARL-16), 9 March 1945
  • Decommissioned, 7 July 1947, at Orange, TX. for lay up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Texas Group, Orange
  • Struck form the Naval Register, 1 April 1960
  • Sold, 21 December 1960, to River Equipment, Memphis, TN., resold to Dravo Corp, Neville Island, Pittsburgh, PA, 16 January 1961, Resold to Avondale Shipbuilding Corp, circa 1962
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 2,125 t.(lt) 4,100 t.(fl)
    Length 328'
    Beam 50'
    Speed 12 kts.
    Complement 253
    Armament 2 quad 40mm w/Mk. 51 directors, 2 twin 40mm w/Mk. 51 directors, 6 twin 20 mm
    Propulsion two General Motors 12-567 Diesel engines, two shafts, twin rudders
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    Myrmidon 28k Myrmidon (ARL-16), date and place unknown. LST-361 web site
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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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