USS LST-291
| |
| History |
 |
| Name: |
USS LST-291 |
| Builder: |
American Bridge Company, Ambridge, Pennsylvania |
| Laid down: |
25 September 1943 |
| Launched: |
14 November 1943 |
| Struck: |
19 May 1954 |
Honours and
awards: |
1 battle star (World War II) |
| Fate: |
Sunk as a target, July 1954 |
| General characteristics |
| Class and type: |
LST-1-class tank landing ship |
| Displacement: |
- 1,780 long tons (1,809 t) light
- 3,880 long tons (3,942 t) full
|
| Length: |
328 ft (100 m) |
| Beam: |
50 ft (15 m) |
| Draft: |
- Unloaded:
- Bow: 2 ft 4 in (0.71 m)
- Stern: 7 ft 6 in (2.29 m)
- Loaded :
- Bow: 8 ft 2 in (2.49 m)
- Stern: 14 ft 1 in (4.29 m)
|
| Propulsion: |
2 General Motors 12-567 diesel engines, two shafts, twin rudders |
| Speed: |
12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
Boats & landing
craft carried: |
Two to six LCVPs |
| Troops: |
approx. 140 officers and enlisted |
| Complement: |
8–10 officers, 100–115 enlisted |
| Armament: |
- 5 × 40 mm gun mounts
- 6 × 20 mm gun mounts
- 2 × .50-cal machine guns
- 4 × .30-cal machine guns
|
USS LST-291 was a LST-1-class tank landing ship built for the United States Navy during World War II by the American Bridge Company in Ambridge, Pennsylvania.
LST-291 was laid down on 25 September 1943 and launched 14 November 1943. During World War II, the LST-291 was assigned to the Europe-Africa-Middle East Theater, and participated in the Invasion of Normandy in June 1944.[1]
In 1954, she ran aground on a coral reef off James Point, Eleuthera in the Bahamas. After 11 days of salvage operations which involved blasting a 1,000 foot channel through the reef, she was freed from the reef and towed back to the drydock at Jacksonville, Florida.[2] The damage she sustained was too extensive, however, and LST-291 was decommissioned, struck from the Naval Register on 19 May 1954, and sunk as a target in July 1954.
LST-291 earned one battle star for World War II service.
References
External links
.svg.png){kind=small}
.svg.png){kind=small}
