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USS Sphinx
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Historic
Naval Ship USS. Sphinx ARL. 24 |
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HISTORIC
RECORD USS SPHINX (ARL 24)
FORMERLY LST 963 |
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The USS Sphinx was laid down as LST 963 at Hingham, MA. on
20 October 1944, was converted to an ARL and commissioned
USS SPHINX ARL 24 on 10 May 1945.
1945: Voyaged to Cuba, Panama Canal, San Diego, Oakland,
San Francisco, Pearl Harbor. War ended as she was enroute
to Adak, Caninato in Missu Bay, Japan in September,
Yokosuka, Saipan.
1946: Saipan, Guam, Eniwetok. A bomb test at Eniwetok,
Marshall Islands, Kwajalien, Pearl Harbor.
1947: Decontaminated in San Pedro, decommissioned in San
Diego.
1948-49: Reserve fleet San Diego.
1950: Recommissioned in November in San Diego.
1951': Pearl Harbor, Yokosuka (Typhoon Ruth), Sasebo,
Muroran, Hokkaido, Japan.
1952: Sasebo, Yokosuka, Muroran, Hokkaido, Kobe, Cheju-do,
Korea.
1953: San Diego, Mare Island.
1954: San Diego, Yokosuka, Saseto, Buckner Bay, Okinawa.
1955: California Coast.
1956-66: Decommissioned in reserve at San Diego.
1967: Towed to New Orleans through Panama Canal,
recommissioned.
1968: New Orleans, Panama Canal, San Diego, Pearl Harbor,
Kusaie, Guam, Subic Bay, Philippines, Vung Tau and Dong
Tam, Mckong Delta, Vietnam.
1969: Tien Gieng, Ham Luong and Van Co Rivers, Vietnam,
Sasebo
1970: Mekong River, Vietnam, Kaoshieng, Taiwan.
1971: Sasebo, Yokosuka, Vietnam, Brenerton, WA;
decommissioned.
1972-84: Mothballed, Bremerton, WA.
1985: Recommissioned Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, July
1985. West coast of Central America, Nicaragua.
1986-89: Carribean, Panama, Nicaragua, Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba, Key West.
1989: Decommissioned Norfolk on June 16. |
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USS SPHINX
(LST-963, LATER ARL-24)
Achelous Class Repair Ship (Small)
Launched November 18, 1944
At Bethlehem Steel Company, Hingham, Massachusetts
Commissioned December 12, 1944
Length: 328 feet
Beam: 50 feet
Draft: 14 feet
Displacement: 1,625 tons
Armament: Two 4Omm quad-mounted guns, three 2Omm guns
One of 39 LST's converted to ARL's, USS Sphinx is the last one
remaining in the United States. She was part of the occupation
forces in Japan, and participated in the atom bomb tests at Bikini
Atoll. During the Korean War, she participated in operation
"Passage to Freedom" relocating refugees to South Vietnam.
During
the Vietnam conflict, she operated in the Mekong River Delta area.
There, painted a camouflage green, she serviced river patrol craft.
In 1985, the ship went through a 25 Million dollar overhaul. The
Sphinx participated in the Navy's war on drugs. Decommissioned
For the final time in 1989.
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