USS LST-2

History
Name: USS LST-2
Builder: Dravo Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Laid down: 23 June 1942
Launched: 19 September 1942
Sponsored by: Nancy Jane Hughes
Commissioned: 22 December 1942
Decommissioned: 29 November 1944
In service: 29 November 1944, as HM LST-2
Out of service: 13 April 1946, returned to US custody
Struck: 5 June 1946
Honors and
awards:		 4 battle stars (WWII)
Fate: Sold 5 December 1947
General characteristics
Class and type: LST-1-class tank landing ship
Displacement:
  • 1,625 long tons (1,651 t) light
  • 4,080 long tons (4,145 t) full
Length: 328 ft (100 m)
Beam: 50 ft (15 m)
Draft: Varied, depending on load
Speed: 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Boats & landing
craft carried:		 6 LCVP
Capacity: between 1600 and 1900 tons
Troops: 14 officers, 131 enlisted men
Complement: 129 officers and enlisted men
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-2 was an LST-1 class tank landing ship of the United States Navy. LST-2 served with the USN in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations and at the Normandy landings during 1943 and 1944. She was then loaned to the Royal Navy in late 1944 and served with the British Eastern Fleet in 1945. LST-2 was returned to the United States Navy in 1946 and was sold to a private owner a year later.[1]

Construction

LST-2 was laid down on 23 June 1942 by the Dravo Corporation in Pittsburgh, launched on 19 September 1942, sponsored by Nancy Jane Hughes[2] and commissioned on 9 February 1943 with Lieutenant John R. Hogan, USNR in command.

Service

Mediterranean and European operations

LST-2 was assigned to the European theater and participated in the following operations for which she received four battle stars:

Royal Navy service

LST-2 was decommissioned on 29 November 1944 and turned over to the Royal Navy as HM LST-2. She prepared for Far East service between December 1944 and August 1945 at Tyne. LST-2 sailed from Southampton on 17 August to Bombay via the Suez Canal, arriving at her destination on 21 September 1945. After supplying South East Asia Command, she was returned to the US Navy in Subic Bay on 13 April 1946 and struck on 5 June 1947.

Postwar

LST-2 was sold on 5 December 1947 to a private owner in the Philippines. Her final disposition is not known.

References

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.

  1. ↑ "HM LST-2 ex USS LST-2". Navsource. 18 April 2014. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
  2. ↑ "LST-2". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Naval History and Heritage Command. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
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