APB-40 USS Nueces / IX-503/APL-40

Awards - Medals For Vietnam Service and Other Information

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Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Awards for Vietnam Service: 
Top Row: Presidential Unit Comendation - Navy Unit Comendation - National Defense Service Medal
Second Row: Vietnam Service Medal/(4) Battle Stars. - RVN Gallantry Cross with Palm - RVN Civil Action Medal, First Class, with Palm
Third Row: RVN Campaign Medal with 60's device

Individual Awards

Combat Action Ribbon (crew members attached spring 1969)

              
Presidential Unit Comendation       Navy Unit Comendation

• Authorized, 17 December 1943, as Barracks Ship (non-self propeller) APL-40
• Reclassified Barracks Ship (self-propelled) APB-40, 8 August 1944
• Laid down, 2 January 1945, at Boston Naval Shipyard, Boston, MA.
• Launched, 6 May 1945
• Commissioned USS Nueces (APB-40), 30 November 1945
• Inactive-in-Commission at Green Cove Springs, FL., March 1946
• Decommissioned, 30 September 1955
• Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Texas Group, Orange, TX.
• Recommissioned, 3 May 1968
• Decommissioned, 13 March 1970, at US Naval Station Long Beach, CA.
• Assigned to the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility, San Diego CA., 16 April 1970
• Assigned to Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Conversion and Repair, Seattle, berthed at WISCO Portland OR., 19 August 1974
• Reclassified Miscellaneous Auxiliary (IX-503), a messing and berthing barge, 1 November 1975, assigned to US Naval Ship Repair Facility, Sasebo, Japan
• Reclassified Barracks Ship (non-self propeller) APL-40, 3 July 2001
• APL-40 is part of the CincPacFlt Berthing and Messing Program and is berthed at SRF Yokosuka, Japan

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  APB Specifications:
  Displacement 2,189 t.
  Length 328'
  Beam 50'
  Draft 11' 2"
  Speed 12 kts.
  Complement 160
  Berthing Capacity 990
  Armament two 3"/50 dual purpose gun mounts, two quad 40mm gun mounts, twenty .50 and .30 cal machine guns
  Propulsion 2 General Motors 12-567 diesel engines, two shafts, twin rudders.