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USS LST-399
File:NH 84849 USNS LST-399.jpg
T-LST-399 on 11 April 1974
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Name:
  • LST-399
Owner:
  • United States Navy (1943-1945)
  • SCAJAP (1945-1952)
  • MSTS (1952-1985)
  • Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Newport News
    Laid down: 28 September 1942
    Launched: 23 November 1942
    Commissioned: 4 January 1943
    Decommissioned: 8 December 1945
    Renamed:
    • Q088, 1945
    • T-LST-399, 1952
    • IX-511
    Struck: 1 November 1973
    Honours and
    awards:
    See Awards
    Fate: Scrapped
    General characteristics [1]
    Type: LST-1-class tank landing ship
    Displacement:
    • 1,625 long tons (1,651 t) (light)
    • 4,080 long tons (4,145 t) (full (seagoing draft with 1,675 short tons (1,520 t) load)
    • 2,366 long tons (2,404 t) (beaching)
    Length: 328 ft (100 m) oa
    Beam: 50 ft (15 m)
    Draft:
    • Unloaded: 2 ft 4 in (0.71 m) forward; 7 ft 6 in (2.29 m) aft
    • Full load: 8 ft 2 in (2.49 m) forward; 14 ft 1 in (4.29 m) aft
    • Landing with 500 short tons (450 t) load: 3 ft 11 in (1.19 m) forward; 9 ft 10 in (3.00 m) aft
    Installed power:
  • 2 × 900 hp (670 kW) Electro-Motive Diesel 12-567A diesel engines
  • 1,700 shp (1,300 kW)
  • Propulsion:
  • 1 × Falk main reduction gears
  • 2 × Propellers
  • 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
    Armament:

    USS LST-399 was an LST-1-class tank landing ship in the United States Navy during World War II.[2]

    Construction and commissioning[]

    LST-399 was laid down on 28 September 1942 at Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Newport News, Virginia. Launched on 23 November 1942 and commissioned on 4 January 1943.[3]

    During World War II, LST-399 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific theater and participated in the occupation of New Georgia-Rendova-Vangunu on 21 July and Vella Lavella from 15 and 26 August 1943. Assault on the Treasury Island from 27 October and 6 November 1943.[2]

    The capture and occupation of Guam from 21 to 28 July 1944.[2]

    The ship participated in the assault and occupation of Iwo Jima from 19 to 25 February 1945 and later the assault and occupation of Okinawa from 1 to 14 April 1945.[2] After the end of the war, the ship was decommissioned on 8 December 1945 and Commander Naval Forces Far East (COMNAVFE) Shipping Control Authority for Japan (SCAJAP), which the ship was re-designated as Q088.[3]

    Military Sea Transportation Service acquired the ship on 31 March 1952 and re-designated again as T-LST-399.[2] On 1 November 1973, the T-LST-399 was struck from the Naval Register and was put into the mothball state at the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet, California.[4] She was later scrapped.[2]

    According to Navsource.org, the ship was reinstated and renamed as IX-511, later struck on the Naval Register on 15 June 1985.[3]

    LST-399 earned five battle star for World War II service.[3]

    Awards[]

    References[]

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