Current Members of the USS Alamo Association
Former Lifetime
DeSchepper, Charles
Dotson, Albert
Fiedler, Jim
Hayes, Clarence "Doug"
Hickman, Bruce
Kisz, Jay
Luce, Vernon
Martin, Benjamin
Mellon, Don
Schuerman, Mike
Shoemaker, Robert
Sposari, Frank
Stockinger, Glen
Tsismenakis, Nick
Lifetime
Havens, Bob
Havens, Peggy - Spouse
Simmons, James “Bud”
Annual
Benefiel, Jeffrey
DeVoe, Bradley
Goehring, Charly
Hicks, Danny
Lynn, Gary
Perko, Dana
Pettit-Robinson, Nancy - Spouse
Robinson, Rickey L
Schuerman, Carol - Spouse
Thomas, C "Tom"
The USS Alamo Board of Directors
- President - C "Tom" Thomas
- Vice President - Jeffrey Benefiel
- Secretary - Brad Devoe
- Treasurer - Rick Robinson
- Officer at Large - Ben Martin
Historian - Tom Pearlman
Ship's Store - Gary Lynn
Chaplain - Charly Goehring
Reunion Committee - Rick Robinson
Media Manager - Rick Robinson (temporary)
Veterans Affairs - still
History of the USS Alamo
Construction Facts
Name USS Alamo
Namesake - the Alamo
Awarded - 18 March 1954
Builder - Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi
Laid down - 11 October 1954
Launched - 20 January 1956
Commissioned - 24 August 1956
Decommissioned - 28 September 1990
Stricken - 24 January 2001
Fate - Loaned to Brazil, 12 November 1990
The information below was obtained from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Alamo
General Characteristics
- Class and type Thomaston-class dock landing ship
- Displacement 8,899 long tons (9,042 t) light
- 11,525 long tons (11,710 t) full load
- Length 510 ft (160 m)
- Beam 84 ft (26 m)
- Draft 19 ft (5.8 m)
- Propulsion 2 steam turbines, 2 shafts, 23,000 s hp (17 MW)
- Speed 21 knots (39 km/h)
- Boats & landing craft carried 21 × LCM-6 landing craft in well deck
- Troops 300
- Complement 304
- Armament 4 × twin 3"/50 caliber guns
- 6 × twin 20 mm AA guns
- Aircraft carried 8 helicopters
Brazil
Name Rio de Janeiro (G31)
Acquired 12 November 1990
Decommissioned 15 June 2012
Fate Scrapped in Alang India 2015
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