USS LST-355

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USS LST-355.jpg
USS LST-355 unloading trucks while high and dry on the beach at Normandy, circa June 1944.
History
United States
NameUSS LST-355
BuilderCharleston Navy Yard
Laid down7 September 1942
Launched16 November 1942
Sponsored byMrs. Wendell E. Kraft
Commissioned22 December 1942
Decommissioned6 March 1946
Stricken31 October 1947
Honours and
awards
2 battle stars
FateSold for scrap, 10 April 1948
General characteristics
Class and type LST-1-class tank landing ship
Displacement4,080 long tons (4,145 t) full
Length328 ft (100 m)
Beam50 ft (15 m)
Draft
  • Light :
  • 2 ft 4 in (0.71 m) forward
  • 7 ft 6 in (2.29 m) aft
  • Sea-going :
  • 8 ft 3 in (2.51 m) forward
  • 14 ft 1 in (4.29 m) aft
  • Landing :
  • 3 ft 11 in (1.19 m) forward
  • 9 ft 10 in (3.00 m) aft
Propulsion2 × General Motors 900 hp (671 kW) 12-567 diesel engines, 2 shafts, twin rudders
Speed12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Range24,000 nmi (44,000 km) at 9 kn (17 km/h; 10 mph) while displacing 3960 tons
Complement9 officers, 120 enlisted
Armament
  • 2 × twin 40 mm gun mounts w/Mk.51 directors
  • 4 × single 40 mm gun mounts
  • 12 × single 20 mm gun mounts

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. Lt. Norman L. Knipe, Jr., USNR, in command.

LST-355 first saw service at the invasion of Sicily in July 1943, and then at the Salerno landings in September. In 1944 she moved to England to support the Normandy landings, landing on Omaha Beach on D-Day.

Following the end of the war, she served on occupation duties in the Far East, before being decommissioned in March 1946 and sold for scrapping in April 1948 to Consolidated Builders, Inc., Seattle, Wash.

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