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LST-1124 / ARL-29 Amphitrite


Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign:
November - Bravo - Lima - Zulu
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - China Service Medal (extended) - 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:
  • Laid down as LST-1124, at Chicago Bridge and Iron Works, Seneca, IL.
  • Redesignated Landing Craft Repair Ship (ARL-29)
  • Launched 1 February 1945
  • Placed in reduced commission for transit to her conversion yard at Baltimore, MD.
  • Decommissioned at Baltimore for conversion to a Landing Craft Repair Ship at Bethlehem Steel Key Highway Plant, Baltimore, MD.
  • Recommissioned USS Amphitrite (ARL-29), 28 June 1945, LT. Thomas S. Medford, USNR, in command
  • Decommissioned, 1 January 1947, at San Diego, CA.
  • Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego Group
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1 July 1961
  • Sold to River Equipment, Inc., of Memphis, TN, 16 April 1962
  • Renamed TMT Biscayne in 1963
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 2,220t. (lt.) 4,100t. (fl.)
    Length 328'
    Beam 50'
    Speed 11.6 Kts.
    Complement 255
    Armament
    two quad 40mm AA gun mounts w/Mk. 51 directors
    two twin 40mm AA gun mounts w/Mk. 51 directors
    six twin 20mm AA gun mounts
    Propulsion two General Motors 12-567 Diesel engines, two shafts, twin rudders
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    Amphitrite 48k Amphitrite (ARL-29) at anchor in the Whangpoo River, off Shanghai, China, circa late September to November 1946. James D. Grady Jr. QM3 USS Duluth for his father James D. Grady S1/c USS Amphitrite
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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
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    Fleet Reserve Association
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