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LST-954 / ARL-17 Numitor

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 Service Medal (with Asia clasp)
Achelous Class Landing Craft Repair Ship:
  • Originally planned as LST-954 but laid down, 19 September 1944 as ARL-17 at Bethlehem Hingham Corp., Hingham, MA.
  • Launched, 18 October 1944
  • Towed or Ferried to her conversion yard at Baltimore
  • Converted to a Landing Craft Repair Ship (ARL) at Bethlehem Key Highway Yard, Baltimore, MD.
  • Commissioned USS Numitor (ARL-17), 3 April 1945
  • Decommissioned, 1 July 1947, at Orange, TX.
  • Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Texas Group, Orange
  • Struck from Naval Register, 1 April 1960
  • Final Disposition, sold to Southern Scrap Metal Co., New Orleans, LA., hull later sold to Dravo Corp for conversion to a drydock
    Specifications:
    Displacement 2,220 t.(lt) 4,100 t.(fl)
    Length 328'
    Beam 50'
    Speed 11.6 Kts.
    Complement 253
    Armament 2 quad 40mm w/Mk. 51 directors, 2 twin 40mm w/Mk. 51 directors, 6 twin 20 mm
    Propulsion 2 General Motors 12-567 diesel engines, two shafts, twin rudders.
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    Numitor 80k Numitor (ARL-17) drydocked, date and place unknown. Fred Reeve
    Numitor 44k Numitor (ARL-17) underway, date and place unknown. Fred Reeve
    Numitor 75k Numitor (ARL-17) with miscellaneous naval ships and craft alongside including LCT-960, date and place unknown. Photo by Thompson, Los Angeles Fred Reeve
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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center web site
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
    Fleet Reserve Association
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