USS LSM-20

USS LSM-20
Career (United States)
Name:	USS LSM-20
Ordered:	15 September 1943
Builder:	Brown Shipbuilding Co., Houston, Texas
Laid down:	24 April 1944
Launched:	14 May 1944
Commissioned:	16 June 1944
Struck:	20 January 1945
Honors and awards:	1 battle star
Fate:	Sunk 5 December 1944
General characteristics
Class & type:	LSM-1-class landing ship medium
Displacement:	520 long tons (530 t) (light) 743 long tons (755 t) (landing) 1,095 long tons (1,113 t) (fully loaded)
Length:	203 ft 6 in (62.03 m)
Beam:	34 ft 6 in (10.52 m)
Draft:	light, 3 ft 6 in (1.07 m) forward, 7 ft 8 in (2.34 m) aft fully loaded, 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) forward, 8 ft 3 in (2.51 m) aft
Speed:	13.2 knots (24.4 km/h; 15.2 mph) max.

USS LSM-20 was a LSM-1-class landing ship medium of the United States Navy, commissioned at Brown Shipyards in Houston, Texas, on 16 June 1944. During WWII, she took place in the Pacific Theatre of Operations. On 5 December 1944, the vessel was hit by a Japanese kamikaze in the Surigao Strait in the Philippines, where she sank. Five sailors were killed and another nine were wounded.