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USS Proserpine (ARL-21)
ex
 USS LST-1116 (1945)


International Radio Call Sign:
November - Bravo - Foxtrot - Xray
 NBFX
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, 2 October 1944 as LST-1116 at Chicago Bridge and Iron Works, Seneca, IL.
  • Launched, 28 December 1944
  • Placed in reduced commission, 9 January 1945, as USS LST-1116 for transit to her conversion yard at Jacksonville, FL., LT. Meredith L. Scott USNR in command
  • Decommissioned, 15 February 1945 at Gibbs Gas Engine Co., Jacksonville, FL. for conversion to a Landing Craft Repair Ship (ARL)
  • Recommissioned USS Proserpine (ARL-21), 31 May 1945, LCDR. Meredith L. Scott USNR in command
  • During World War II USS Proserpine was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater
  • Decommissioned, 18 January 1947, at Green Cove Spring, FL.
  • Assigned to the Atlantic Reserve Fleet at Green Cove Spring, FL.
  • Recommissioned, 27 October 1950
  • Decommissioned, 24 May 1956
  • Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Boston Group, South Boston, MA.
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 26 September 1960, at South Boston, MA.
  • Sold, 26 September 1960, to Interamerican Standard Co., New York, N.Y. as the barge McLeod
  • Registered in 1975 by Mariners Towing Corp, Brownsville, TX. as freight barge McLeod
  • Final Disposition, scrapped in 1977
    Specifications:
    Displacement 3,900 t.(lt) 4,100 t.(fl)
    Length 328'
    Beam 50'
    Draft 11' 2" (lim)
    Speed 11.6 kts.
    Largest Boom Capacity 60 t.
    Complement
    Officers 22
    Enlisted 233
    Armament
    one single 3"/50 cal. dual purpose gun mount
    two quad 40mm AA gun mounts w/Mk. 51 directors
    six twin 20 mm AA gun mounts
    Fuel Capacity
    Diesel 4,715 Bbls
    Propulsion
    two General Motors 12-567A Diesel engines
    single Falk Main Reduction Gears
    Ship's Service Generators
    three Diesel-drive 100Kw 120V/240V D.C.
    two Diesel-drive 100Kw 450V A.C.
    two propellers, 1,800shp
    twin rudders
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    Proserpine 95k USS Proserpine (ARL-21) underway in the Port of Jacksonville, FL., 10 June 1945, after completion of conversion to a Landing Craft Repair Ship. Note the two tall kingposts, considerably closer together than earlier ARLs.
    US National Archives photo # 19-N-86800, RG-19 LCM, a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives..    		 Robert Hall
    Proserpine 63k USS Proserpine (ARL-21) moored at NAB Little Creek, VA, circa 1951. George Panos, QMS2C USS Earle B. Hall
    Proserpine 83k USS Proserpine (ARL-21) moored at NAB Little Creek, VA, 1952. Donald B. Canaday
    Proserpine 76k USS Proserpine (ARL-21) laid up at East Boston, June 1961 © Richard Leonhardt
    USS Proserpine (ARL-21)
    Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)
    Commanding Officers
    01LT. Scott, Meredith Leitch, USNR9 January 1945 - 15 February 1945
     Decommissioned15 February 1945 - 31 May 1945
    01LCDR. Scott, Meredith Leitch, USNR31 May 1945 - 18 January 1947
     Decommissioned18 January 1947 - 27 October 1950
    02LCDR. Darrow, John B., USNR27 October 1950 - ?
    03LCDR. Hibler Jr., Oscar Newton1953
    Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    USS Proserpine (ARL-21) 1953 Cruisebook courtesy Jim White SKSN, USS Minos 1952-54
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