LST-1-class tank landing ship
USS LST-355 unloading trucks while high and dry on the beach at Normandy, circa June 1944.
Name USS LST-355 Builder Charleston Navy Yard Laid down 7 September 1942 Launched 16 November 1942 Sponsored by Mrs. Wendell E. Kraft Commissioned 22 December 1942 Decommissioned 6 March 1946 Stricken 31 October 1947 Honours and 2 battle stars Fate Sold for scrap, 10 April 1948
Class & type LST-1 -classtank landing ship Displacement 4,080 long tons (4,145 t) full Length 328 ft (100 m) Beam 50 ft (15 m) Draft
Light :2 ft 4 in (0.71 m) forward
7 ft 6 in (2.29 m) aft
Sea-going :8 ft 3 in (2.51 m) forward
14 ft 1 in (4.29 m) aft
Landing :3 ft 11 in (1.19 m) forward
9 ft 10 in (3.00 m) aft
Propulsion 2 × General Motors 900 hp (671 kW) 12-567 diesel engines , 2 shafts, twin rudders Speed 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) Range 24,000 nmi (44,000 km) at 9 kn (17 km/h; 10 mph) while displacing 3960 tons Complement 9 officers, 120 enlisted 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-355 was an LST-1 -class tank landing ship of the United States Navy active during the Second World War .
She was laid down in September 1942 at the Charleston Navy Yard , sponsored by Mrs. Wendell E. Kraft and commissioned in December 1942.
LST-355 first saw service at the invasion of Sicily in July 1943, and then at the Salerno landings in September. In 1944 she moved to England to support the Normandy landings , landing on Omaha Beach on D-Day.
Following the end of the war, she served on occupation duties in the Far East, before being decommissioned in March 1946 and sold for scrapping in April 1948 to Consolidated Builders in Seattle .
