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From "All Hands" magazine, May 1953

LST-1116 / ARL-21 Proserpine

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.
  • 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
  • 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, Boston, MA.
  • Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown)
  • Sold 26 September 1960 to Interamerican Standard Co., New York, N.Y.
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 2,220 t.(lt) 4,100 t.(fl)
    Length 328'
    Beam 50'
    Speed 11.6 Kts.
    Complement 253
    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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    Proserpine 63k Proserpine (ARL-21) moored at NAB Little Creek, VA, circa 1951. George Panos, QMS2C USS Earle B. Hall
    Proserpine 83k Proserpine (ARL-21) moored at NAB Little Creek, VA, 1952. Donald B. Canaday
    Proserpine 76k Proserpine (ARL-21) laid up at East Boston, June 1961 © Richard Leonhardt
    View the Proserpine (ARL-21) 1953 Cruisebook courtesy Jim White SKSN, USS Minos 1952-54
    View the Proserpine (ARL-21)
    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
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
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