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LST-1136 / ARL-32 Bellona

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 - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)
Achelous Class Landing Craft Repair Ship:
  • Redesignated ARL-32, 14 August 1944
  • Laid down, 27 December 1944, as LST-1136 at Chicago Bridge and Iron Co., Seneca, IL.
  • Launched, 26 March 1945
  • Placed in reduced commission as USS LST-1136, 6 April 1945, for transit to her conversion yard at Baltimore, MD.
  • Decommissioned, 27 April 1945, at Bethlehem Steel Co., Key Highway Plant, Baltimore, MD.
  • Recommissioned USS Bellona (ARL-32), 26 July 1945, Lt. W. P. Sullivan, USNR, in command
  • Lost due to grounding, 1 December 1945, near Iwo Jima at Kama Rocks
  • Final Disposition, destroyed, 14 May 1946
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 5 June 1946
    Specifications:
    Displacement 2,220 t.(lt) 3,960 t.(fl)
    Length 328'
    Beam 50'
    Speed 11 kts.
    Complement 253
    Armament
    one single 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount
    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 2 General Motors 12-567 diesel engines, two shafts, twin rudders
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