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LST-1137 / ARL-33 Chimaera

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:
  • Redesignated ARL-33, 14 August 1944
  • Laid down (date unknown) as Chimaera (ARL-33) at Chicago Bridge and Iron Co., Seneca IL.
  • Launched, 30 March 1945
  • Placed in reduced commissioned as USS Chimaera (ARL-33)
  • Decommissioned, 7 May 1945, at her conversion yard at Baltimore, MD.
  • Recommissioned, 7 August 1945
  • Decommissioned, 8 March 1948, at San Pedro. CA.
  • Laid up at the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego Group
  • Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown)
  • 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 w/Mk. 51 directors, 2 twin 40mm w/Mk. 51 directors, 6 twin 20 mm
    Propulsion 2 General Motors 12-567 diesel engines, two shafts, twin rudders
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    Chimaera 80k Chimaera (ARL-33) underway, date and place unknown. Hyperwar, US Navy in WWII
    Chimaera 42k Chimaera (ARL-33) underway in Baltimore harbor, circa 1945. Hughes Studio Photo Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Maryland Historical Society
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    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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