USS LST-43
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United States | |
Name | LST-43 |
Builder | Charleston Navy Yard, Charleston |
Laid down | 19 June 1943 |
Launched | 28 August 1943 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. C. A. Hill |
Commissioned | 6 October 1943 |
Stricken | 18 July 1944 |
Identification |
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Honors and awards | See Awards |
Fate | Sunk as target, 1945 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | LST-1-class tank landing ship |
Displacement |
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Length | 328 ft (100 m) oa |
Beam | 50 ft (15 m) |
Draft |
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Installed power | |
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 or 6 x LCVPs |
Capacity |
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Troops | 16 officers, 147 enlisted men |
Complement | 13 officers, 104 enlisted men |
Armament |
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USS LST-43 was a LST-1-class tank landing ship in the United States Navy during World War II.[1]
Construction and career[]
LST-43 was laid down on 19 June 1943 at Charleston Navy Yard, Charleston, South Carolina. Launched on 28 August 1943 and commissioned on 6 October 1943, Lt. W. H. Zuehlke in command.[2]
During World War II, LST-43 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific theater. She took part in the Occupation of Kwajalein and Majuro Atolls from 31 January to 8 February 1944.
She was destroyed and sunk during the West Loch disaster alongside 5 other LSTs at Pearl Harbor on 21 May 1944.
LST-43 was struck from the Navy Register on 18 July 1944.[3]
In 1945, she was raised but deemed too expensive to be repaired thus she was towed out to sea and sunk again as a target ship for torpedoes.[1]
Awards[]
LST-43 have earned the following awards:
- American Campaign Medal
- Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1 battle star)
- World War II Victory Medal
Citations[]
- ^ a b "Tank Landing Ship LST". www.navsource.org. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ "LST-43". public1.nhhcaws.local. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ "Tank Landing Ship LST". www.navsource.org. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
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.
- 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.
- World War II amphibious warfare vessels of the United States
- Ships built in Charleston, South Carolina
- 1943 ships
- LST-1-class tank landing ships of the United States Navy
- Ships sunk as targets
- Maritime incidents in May 1944