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LST-1115 / ARL-20 Pentheus

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 - Philippines Liberation Medal
Achelous Class Landing Craft Repair Ship:
  • Laid down as LST-1115, 29 September 1944, at Chicago Bridge and Iron Works, Seneca IL.
  • Launched, 22 December 1944
  • Placed in reduced commission, 4 January 1945, as USS LST-1115 for transit to her conversion yard at Baltimore, MD.
  • Decommissioned, 6 February 1945, at Baltimore, MD., for conversion to a Landing Craft Repair Ship (ARL)
  • Commissioned USS Pentheus (ARL-20), 7 June 1945
  • Decommissioned, 20 April 1946, at Green Cove Spring, FL.
  • Assigned to the Atlantic Reserve Fleet at Green Cove Spring
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1 January 1960
  • Sold, 13 June 1960 to Ships Inc., of Florida
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 2,220t. (lt.) 4,100t. (fl.)
    Length 328'
    Beam 50'
    Speed 11.6 Kts.
    Complement 255
    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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    Pentheus50k Pentheus (ARL-20) off-loading pontoons that she had taken on at Providence R.I. on completion of her voyage to Subic Bay, P.I. in October 1945.
    US Navy photo     		Maynard L. Johnson MoMM/3 USS Pentheus
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