USS LST-964
USS LST-964 was an LST-542-class tank landing ship in the United States Navy. Like many of her class, she was not named and is properly referred to by her hull designation.
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Name: | LST-964 |
Builder: | Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Hingham, Massachusetts |
Yard number: | 3434[1] |
Laid down: | 24 October 1944 |
Launched: | 22 November 1944 |
Commissioned: | 16 December 1944 |
Decommissioned: | 27 June 1946 |
Stricken: | 15 August 1946 |
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Fate: | Sold for conversion to merchant service, 17 January 1947 |
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Name: | San Juan Bosco |
Owner: | Compania Naviera SA and Commercial Perez Companc |
Route: | Belém, Pará, Brazil to Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina |
Fate: | Sold |
Name: | Ionian Sea |
Owner: | The Carrier Co. |
Fate: | Sold, 1974 |
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Owner: | Dalmine Deguara Siderca Company, Campana, Brazil |
Status: | Fate unknown |
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Class and type: | LST-542-class tank landing ship |
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Length: | 328 ft (100 m) oa |
Beam: | 50 ft (15 m) |
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Speed: | 11.6 kn (21.5 km/h; 13.3 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 x LCVPs |
Capacity: | 1,600–1,900 short tons (3,200,000–3,800,000 lb; 1,500,000–1,700,000 kg) cargo depending on mission |
Troops: | 16 officers, 147 enlisted men |
Complement: | 13 officers, 104 enlisted men |
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Part of: | LST Flotilla 31 |
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Construction
LST-964 was laid down on 24 October 1944, at Hingham, Massachusetts, by the Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard; launched on 22 November 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Ailene Borland; and commissioned on 16 December 1944.[3]
Service history
Following the war, she performed occupation duty in the Far East and saw service in China until early April 1946. She returned to the United States and was decommissioned on 27 June 1946, and struck from the Navy list on 15 August, that same year. On 17 January 1947, the ship was sold to Campania Naviera y Commercial Perez Compano S.A. for operation.[3]
She was later sold to the Carrier Company and renamed Ionian Sea. In 1974, she was again sold, to Dalmine Deguara Siderca Company at Campana, Brazil, on the Paraná River.
Bibliography
Online resources
- "LST-964". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Naval History and Heritage Command. 4 August 2015. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. - "Bethlehem-Hingham, Hingham MA". www.ShipbuildingHistory.com. 11 August 2011. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
- "USS LST-964". Navsource.org. 22 March 2013. Retrieved 20 June 2017.