HMS LST-364
51°18′00″N 1°55′00″E / 51.300000°N 1.916667°E
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Name | LST-364 |
Builder | Bethlehem Steel Company, Quincy |
Laid down | 3 September 1942 |
Launched | 26 October 1942 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Harold B. Buse |
Commissioned | 7 December 1942 |
Stricken | 11 July 1945 |
Fate | Sunk by Seehund, 22 February 1945 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | LST-1-class tank landing ship |
Displacement |
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Length | 328 ft (100 m) oa |
Beam | 50 ft (15 m) |
Draft |
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Installed power |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
Range | 24,000 nmi (44,000 km; 28,000 mi) at 9 kn (17 km/h; 10 mph) while displacing 3,960 long tons (4,024 t) |
Boats & landing craft carried | 2 or 6 x LCVPs |
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Troops | 16 officers, 147 enlisted men |
Complement | 13 officers, 104 enlisted men |
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HMS LST-364 was a LST-1-class tank landing ship in the Royal Navy during World War II.[1]
Construction and career
[edit]LST-364 was laid down on 3 September 1942 by Bethlehem Steel Company, Quincy, Massachusetts. Launched on 26 October 1942 and commissioned into the Royal Navy on 7 December 1942.[2]
During World War II, LST-364 was assigned to the Europe-Africa-Middle theater. She took part in the Sicilian occupation in Italy from 9 to 15 July 1943 and 28 July to 17 August 1943. Then the Salerno landings from 9 to 21 September of the same year.
On 22 January 1944, she took part in the Anzio invasion and later the Invasion of Normandy in June 1944.
She was struck from the Navy Register on 11 July 1945.[1]
Citations
[edit]- ^ a b "Tank Landing Ship LST". www.navsource.org. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ "History of LST - 311 - 349". www.historycentral.com. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
Sources
[edit]- United States. Dept. of the Treasury (1962). Treasury Decisions Under the Customs, Internal Revenue, Industrial Alcohol, Narcotic and Other Laws, Volume 97. U.S. Government Printing Office.
- Moore, Capt. John (1984). Jane's Fighting Ships 1984-85. Jane's Information Group. ISBN 978-0710607959.
- Saunders, Stephen (2009). Jane's Fighting Ships 2009-2010. Jane's Information Group. ISBN 978-0710628886.
- Fairplay International Shipping Journal Volume 222. United Kingdom: Fairplay Publishing Limited. 1967.