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LST-858 / ARL-26 Stentor

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - China Service Medal (extended)
Bottom Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
Achelous Class Landing Craft Repair Ship:
  • Projected as LST-858
  • Redesignated a Landing Craft Repair Ship 14 August 1944
  • Laid down, 21September 1944, at Chicago Bridge and Iron Co., Seneca, IL.
  • Launched, 11November 1944
  • Commissioned USS Stentor (ARL-26) 22 December 1944, Lt. Charles J. Miller in command
  • Decommissioned, 9 January 1945, at Mobile, AL. for completion as an ARL
  • Recommissioned, 28 April 1945
  • Decommissioned in December 1947, at San Diego, CA.
  • Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego Group
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1 July1960
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 23 January 1961, to Diesel Parts Corp., New York City
    Specifications:
    Displacement 2,220 t.(lt) 3,960 t.(fl)
    Length 328'
    Beam 50'
    Draft 11' 2" (lim)
    Speed 11.6 Kts.
    Complement 254
    Armament
    two quad 40mm AA gun mounts w/Mk. 51 directors
    two twin 40mm AA gun mounts w/Mk. 51 directors
    six twin 20 mm AA gun mounts
    Propulsion two General Motors 12-567 Diesel engines, two shafts, twin rudders
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    Stentor 64k Stentor (ARL-26) moored pierside, date and place unknown. Tina Gibson in honor of her father Homer A. Bacas Y1/c USS Stentor 1945-46.
    Stentor 118k Stentor (ARL-26) crew standing at inspection. Y1/c Bacas is directly behind the inspecting officer, date and place unknown. (The inspecting officer is most likely the Commanding Officer, LT. Charles J. Miller.) Tina Gibson in honor of her father Homer A. Bacas Y1/c USS Stentor 1945-46.
    Stentor 102k Stentor (ARL-26) crew standing at inspection. Y1/c Bacas is directly behind the inspecting officer, date and place unknown. (The inspecting officer is most likely the Commanding Officer, LT. Charles J. Miller.) Tina Gibson in honor of her father Homer A. Bacas Y1/c USS Stentor 1945-46.
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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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