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US Army T-Boat T-57

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns Medal - World War II Victory Medal
Tender:
  • Built in 1943 as the wooden-hull T-Boat T-57 at M.M. Davis & Sons, Solomons, MD.
  • Launched in 1943
  • Delivered to the US Army Quartermaster Corps in March 1943
  • Placed in service in March 1943 as US Army T-Boat T-57
  • During World War II T-57 saw service in the South Pacific
  • Placed out of service, date unknown
  • Purchased in 1946 by a Maine concern for service as a lobster transport along the US Northeastern seaboard
  • Current Disposition, active in merchant service ferrying passengers, mail and freight between Port Clyde and Monhegan Island, Maine
    Specifications:
    Displacement 57 t. (gross)
    Length 65'
    Beam 18'
    Depth of Hull unknown
    Draft 8'
    Speed unknown
    Complement unknown
    Armament two 50cal machine guns
    Cruise Radius unknown
    Propulsion
    one diesel engine, 230 hp
    single propeller
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    T-57
    302905701    		 58k M/V Laura B. (Ex-US Army T-Boat T-57) mooed pierside, date and location unknown. John Spivey
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