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File:US Army Air Corps photo A63574A.jpg USS LST-274 and USS LST-277 on 27 May 1944 | |
Career (United States) | |
Name: | LST-274 |
Builder: | American Bridge Co., Ambridge |
Laid down: | 11 March 1943 |
Launched: | 15 August 1943 |
Sponsored by: | Mrs. R. F. Salmon |
Commissioned: | 28 September 1943 |
Decommissioned: | 6 May 1946 |
Struck: | 23 June 1947 |
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Honors and awards: | See Awards |
Fate: | Scrapped, 29 June 1948 |
General characteristics | |
Class & type: | LST-1-class tank landing ship |
Displacement: |
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Length: | 328 ft (100 m) oa |
Beam: | 50 ft (15 m) |
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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 x LCVPs |
Capacity: | 1,600–1,900 st (22,000–27,000 lb; 10,000–12,000 kg) cargo depending on mission |
Troops: | 16 officers, 147 enlisted men |
Complement: | 13 officers, 104 enlisted men |
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USS LST-274 was a LST-1-class tank landing ship in the United States Navy during World War II.[1]
Construction and career[]
LST-274 was laid down on 11 March 1943 at American Bridge Co., Seneca, Indiana. Launched on 15 August 1943 and commissioned on 28 September 1943, Lt. Russell E. Sard Jr. in command.[2]
She was present during the West Loch disaster and she was moored with LST-69, LST-225, LST-205, LST-43, LST-179, LST-353, and LST-39. No crew members were lost aboard the ship during that disaster.[3]
During World War II, LST-274 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific theater. She took part in the Occupation of Kwajalein and Majuro Atolls, 31 January to 8 February 1944 and Battle of Saipan from 17 June to 3 July 1944. LST-274 was decommissioned on 6 May 1946 and struck from the Navy Register on 23 June 1947.
On 29 June 1948, she was sold for scrap to Alexander Shipyard, Inc., New Orleans, Louisiana.[1]
Awards[]
LST-274 have earned the following awards:
Citations[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Tank Landing Ship LST". https://www.navsource.org/archives/10/16/160274.htm.
- ↑ "LST-274" (in en-US). http://public1.nhhcaws.local/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/l/lst-274.html.
- ↑ "US LST Association - LST Memories: The Second Pearl Harbor Disaster". https://www.uslst.org/memories/27-articles/17-lst-memories-the-second-pearl-harbor-disaster.
Sources[]
- 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. https://books.google.com/books?id=BnfPAAAAMAAJ.
- 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. https://www.google.co.id/books/edition/Fairplay_International_Shipping_Journal/4b8eAQAAMAAJ.
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