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U.S.S. CHILTON

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APA-38 Deployments - Major Events

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Month Year to Month Year Deployment / Event
DEC1942-Launch Date: 29 DEC 1942
JUN1946-AUG1946Middle Pacific
AUG1949-Shellback Initiation - 15 AUG 1949 - Atlantic Ocean
JAN1954-JUN19541st Battalion 8th Marines 2nd Mar Div.
JAN1955-JAN1956Guantanamo Bay
DEC1956-Shellback Initiation - 5 DEC 1956 - Atlantic Ocean
JUL1958-NOV1958Mediterranean-Lebanon
JAN1959-JAN1959Bay of Pigs
JAN1959-JAN1961Dry Dock
AUG1959-OCT1959Beruit Lebanon
MAY1960-DEC1960Mediterranean
JAN1961-MAY1961bay of pigs
JAN1961-MAR1961Caribbean
SEP1961-MAR1962Mediterranean
JAN1962-JAN1963Cuban Missle Blockade
JAN1962-JAN1962Cuban Missle Blockade
OCT1962-OCT1962Cuban Missle Blockade
FEB1963-MAY1963Mediterranean
SEP1963-DEC1963Caribbean
JUN1964-Shellback Initiation - 19 JUN 1964 - Atlantic Ocean
FEB1965-JUN1965dominican republic conflict
FEB1965-JUN1965Domican Republic Conflict
JUN1965-JUN1965Caribbean
NOV1965-APR1966Dry Dock
JAN1966-JAN1967North Atlantic-Med-Indian Ocean
MAY1966-NOV1966Mediterranean
JAN1967-MAR1967Caribbean
AUG1967-FEB1968Mediterranean
JUL1968-DEC1968North Atlantic-Med-Indian Ocean
OCT1968-Shellback Initiation - 15 OCT 1968 - Atlantic Ocean
JAN1969-JAN1970Mediterranean
MAY1969-JUN1969Secondary Recovery Ship Apollo 10 Mission - on West Africa Coast
JUL1969-DEC1969Mediterranean-Lebanon
DEC1969-FEB1970Guantanamo Bay
JAN1970-JAN1973Mediterranean

APA-38 General Specifications

Complement: 51 Officers and 524 Enlisted

Displacement: 8100 tons

Length: 492 feet 6 inches

Beam: 69 feet 6 inches

Draft: 26 feet 6 in

Final Disposition: Sold by MARAD 15 July 1974