USS Carpellotti DE 720 APD 136

USS CARPELLOTTI DE 548

Canceled 06/10/44; name went to DE-720

USS CARPELLOTTI DE 720/APD 136

Named for Marine Private First Class Louis Joseph Carpellotti, b. 13 February 1918, Old Forge, PA; KIA 7 August 1942, Tulagi, Solomons; posthumous Silver Star

Type: TEV
Builder: DBC
Keel laid 10/31/44
Launched 03/10/45
Commissioned as APD 07/30/45
First CO: Lt Cdr J. V. Brown
Decommissioned 04/21/58
Stricken 12/01/59
Sold 05/31/60

From the research of Anne McCarthy,
with contributions by Pat Perrella and Pat Stephens, webmaster. March 2006