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USS LST-325 is a decommissioned tank landing ship of the United States Navy, now docked in Evansville, Indiana, US. Like many of her class, she was not named and is properly referred to by her hull designation (LSTs in service after July 1955 were named after U.S. counties and parishes).
A full list of United States Navy LSTs.The Landing Ship, Tanks (LSTs) built for the United States Navy during and immediately after World War II were only given an LST-number hull designation, but on 1 July 1955, county or Louisiana-parish names were assigned to those ships which remained in service.
Built in Shelburne, ... USS LST-325 [88] 1942. United States Landing Ship, Tank: Evansville, Indiana ... which includes at least one in Oklahoma.
Evansville's shipyards built many LSTs themselves, and Whicker went on to become executive director of the USS LST Ship Memorial and was one of the main drivers in finally bringing the ship home ...
USS LST-325 (left) and USS LST-388 unloading at low tide while beached during the Normandy Invasion in June 1944 A GM EMD 12-567ATLP diesel engine as installed in USS LST-393. The engines were rated at 900 HP (each) at 744 RPM. The LST(2) was built as the LST-1 class and the LST-491 class.
USS Frederick with its bow ramp extended USS Racine bow view with bow ramp sitting on deck. The Newport class were designed under project SCB 247 [1] to meet the goal put forward by the United States amphibious forces to have a tank landing ship (LST) capable of over 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph).
The four Richmond Kaiser Shipyards built 747 ships in World War II, a rate never equaled. [3] Compared to the average ship built elsewhere, Richmond ships were completed in two-thirds the time and at a quarter of the cost. The Liberty ship Robert E. Peary was assembled in less than five days as a part of a competition among shipyards.
USS LST-355 was an LST-1-class tank landing ship of the United States Navy active during the Second World War. She was laid down in September 1942 at the Charleston Navy Yard, sponsored by Mrs. Wendell E. Kraft and commissioned in December 1942. LST-355 first saw service at the invasion of Sicily in July 1943, and then at the Salerno landings ...