Clarion River
LSMR-409
1969
(Spider Navy SN-2-03A)
- Class: LSM(R)-401 -- Landing Ship Medium (Rocket)
- Displacement: 758 tons light / 1,084 tons full load
- Dimensions: 203'6" x 34'6" x 7'3"
- Machinery: geared Diesels, twin shafts, 2,800 shp = 12.5 knots
- Armament: 1-5"/38 DP, 4-40mm (2x2), 8 twin tube continuous loading 5" spin stabilized rocke launchers
- Complement: 138
- Builder: US Naval Shipyard, Charleston, South Carolina
- Keel Laid: 26 Jan 1945
- Launched: 18 Feb 1945
- Commissioned: 16 May 1945 / 5 Oct 1950 / 18 Sep 1965
- Decommissioned: 6 Feb 1947 /26 Oct 1955 / 8 May 1970
- Notes: Built as LSM(R)-409 and assigned to LSM(R) Flotilla Eighteen during WWII, but saw no combat. Postwar laid up in Pacific Reserve Fleet, but reactivated for Korea. Assigned to LSMR Squadron Five, she earned four battle stars. Renamed Clarion River 1 Oct 1955 and again laid up. Recommissioned for Vietnam, earning nine campaign stars. Sold for scrapping 1970.
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