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Date Posted: 01/18/10 10:39:05
LST'S LOST IN WWII
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*LST 6 -- 17 Nov 1944, Mined and sunk in the Seine Bay, France.
*LST 43 -- 21 May 1944, Sunk at West Loch, Pearl Harbor when mortar ammunition that was being loaded aboard LST 353 exploded.
Raised but not repaired.
*LST 69 -- 21 May 1944, Sunk at West Loch, Pearl Harbor when mortar ammunition that was being loaded aboard LST 353 exploded.
*LST 158 -- 11 Jul 1943, Heavily damaged by German aircraft of Licata, Sicily, Italy in position 37º05'N, 13º55'E. Abandoned and sunk.
*LST 179 -- 21 May 1944, Sunk at West Loch, Pearl Harbor when mortar ammunition that was being loaded aboard LST 353 exploded.
*LST 203 -- 1 Oct 1943, Damaged by grounding near Nanumea, Ellice Islands (now called Tuvalu) and declared a total loss.
*LST 228 -- 19 Jan 1944, Grounded off the Azores in position 38º39'N, 27º12'W.
Deemed beyond salvage.
*LST 282 -- 15 Aug 1944, LST 282 was heavly damaged by a German glider bomb while taking part in the landings on the coast of southern France. LST 282 was beached and abandoned in position 43º25'N, 06º50'E.
*LST 313 -- 10 Jul 1943 , Bombed by German aircraft off Gela, Sicily in position 37º01'N, 14º15'E. Destroyed by fire.
*LST 314 -- 9 Jun 1944, Torpedoed and sunk in the Seine Bay about 30 nautical miles east of Cherbourg, France in position 49º43'N, 00º52'W during an attack by the German motor torpedo boats S 172, S 174, S 175 and S 187.
*LST 318 -- 10 Aug 1943, On 9 August 1943 USS LST 318 was damaged by enemy dive bomber off the north coast of Sicily in position 38º04'N, 14º30'E. The ship was beached and abandoned the next day.
*LST 333 -- 6 Jul 1943, At 21.31 hours on 22 June 1943 the German submarine U-593 fired a spread of four torpedoes at the convoy Elastic about eight nautical miles north-east of Cape Corbelin, Algeria in position 36º59'N, 04º01'E and hit USS LST 333 and USS LST 387 with one torpedo each. The first was beached and declared a total loss, while the latter was towed to Dellys and later repaired. The torpedoeing of these two ships hampers the training for the forthcoming invasion of Sicily (Operation Husky).
USS LST 333 was struck by the torpedo on the starboard side in the stern. The explosion demolished the stern section, carried away the screws and rudder and stopped the engines. About 20 minutes after the hit, the landing crafts USS LCT 244 and USS LCT 19 took the landing ship in tow and proceeded slowly towards the beach. After one hour, the submarine chaser USS SC 503 came alongside and took off 32 injured crew members and 24 injured passengers and brought them to Algiers. After five hours of towing, the stern of the landing craft came aground near Dellys. The crew and passengers were taken off by the landing craft and brought to Dellys. USS LST 333 later sank during a salvage attempt on 6 July.
*LST 342 -- 18 Jul 1943, Torpedoed and sunk on 18 July 1943 by the Japanese submarine RO-106 south-east of New Georgia, Solomon Islands in position 09º03'S, 158º11'E.
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