USS LST-79
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Name | LST-79 |
Builder | Jeffersonville Boat and Machine Co., Jeffersonville |
Laid down | 28 February 1943 |
Launched | 8 May 1943 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Virginia Lee Hughes |
Commissioned | 7 July 1943 |
Fate | Transferred to Royal Navy |
History | |
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Name | LST-79 |
Commissioned | 17 July 1943 |
Stricken | 11 October 1943 |
Fate | Sunk by Luftwaffe, 30 September 1943 |
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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USS LST-79 was a LST-1-class tank landing ship in the Royal Navy during World War II.[1]
Construction and career
[edit]LST-79 was laid down on 28 February 1943 at Jeffersonville Boat and Machine Co., Jeffersonville, Indiana. Launched on 8 May 1943 and commissioned on 7 July 1943. The ship was later transferred to the Royal Navy and commissioned on 17 July 1943.[2] The ship was assigned 9th LST Flotilla.
She was sunk by a German Henschel Hs 293 guided missile while off Ajaccio Harbor, Corsica, 30 September 1943.
LST-79 was struck from the Navy Register on 11 October 1943.[1]
Citations
[edit]- ^ a b "Tank Landing Ship LST". www.navsource.org. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
- ^ "LST-79". NHHC. Retrieved 11 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.