USS Pandemus
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Pandemus |
| Namesake | |
| Builder | Chicago Bridge and Iron Company, Seneca, Illinois |
| Laid down | 20 July 1944 |
| Launched | 10 October 1944 |
| Sponsored by | Mrs. Laura Sauter Gasperik |
| Commissioned | 23 February 1945 |
| Decommissioned | 23 September 1946 |
| Recommissioned | 14 December 1951 |
| Decommissioned | 30 September 1968 |
| Stricken | 1 October 1968 |
| Fate | Sunk as a target, 1969 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Achelous class repair ship |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 328 ft (100 m) |
| Beam | 50 ft (15 m) |
| Draft | 11 ft 2 in (3.40 m) |
| Propulsion | 2 × General Motors 12-567 diesel engines, two shafts, twin rudders |
| Speed | 12 knots (14 mph; 22 km/h) |
| Complement | 255 officers and enlisted men |
| Armament |
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| Service record | |
| Awards: |
1 battle star for World War II |
USS Pandemus (ARL-18) was one of 39
Pandemus (a civic goddess in Egyptian and Greek mythology
, perhaps of marriage, personifying earthly or common love), she has been the only U.S. Navy vessel to bear the name.
Construction and commissioning
Pandemous originally was laid down as the
decommissioned on 3 November 1944 for conversion to a landing craft repair ship by Todd Johnson Dry Dock, Inc.
After the conversion was complete, she was commissioned in full on 23 February 1945.
Service history
1st commission, 1945–1946
Pandemus departed New Orleans on 12 March 1945 for
Okinawa. There she tended and repaired infantry in 1945.[1]
Pandemus touched at
Algiers, Louisiana
, on 4 July 1946 and decommissioned there on 23 September 1946.
2nd commission, 1951–1968
Pandemus recommissioned at
United States East Coast from Newport, Rhode Island, to Key West, Florida, and in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico
.
Final decommissioning and disposal
Pandemous decommissioned on 30 September 1968 and was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 October 1968. She was sunk as a target in late 1969.
Honors and awards
Pandemus received one
battle star
for World War II service.
Notes
- infantry landing craftUSS LCI-1945, if an LCI with that number existed.
References
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.- "LST-650 / ARL-18 Pandemus". Amphibious Photo Archive. Retrieved 26 April 2007.
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