USS LST-767

USS LST-767

USS "LST-767" 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.

"LST-767" was laid down on 19 July 1944 at Ambridge, Pa., by the American Bridge Co.; launched on 4 September 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Helen Stanhope; and commissioned on 30 September 1944, Lt. R. B. Seidman, USCGR, in command.

War Service

She was commissioned after voyaging down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to New Orleans, Louisiana, and passed through the Panama Canal to the Pacific Ocean in mid-November. She then went to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, where in mid-December 1944 she took on board military passengers, the tank landing craft "LCT-749", pontoon causeway sections and other materiel. Late in the year "LST-767" left Hawaii for Leyte, in the Philippine Islands, where she arrived at the beginning of February 1945. During the next two months the landing ship travelled south to New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, then returned north to Ulithi, Caroline Islands, and finally, in early April, to Okinawa, arriving a few days after U.S. forces commenced a long and bloody campaign against the island's Japanese defenders.

After launching "LCT-749" and disembarking her passengers and their equipment, "LST-767" left Okinawa and began several months of transportation service in the central, south and western Pacific. She was in the Solomon Islands when Japan's mid-August 1945 agreement agreed to surrender brought the great Pacific War to an end. During the last part of September "LST-767" landed cargo on Okinawa, an undertaking that was interrupted by the need to put to sea to ride out an approaching typhoon. In the early morning darkness of 1 December 1945, while beached at Kana Wan, Okinawa, "LST-767" was wrecked by another storm. When it was determined that salvage would be impossible for several months, she was ordered to be stripped and disposed of. "LST-767" was placed out of commission in early March 1945 and stricken from the Navy list later in that month. Her hulk was later sold, with final disposition taking place in May 1947.

"LST-767" earned one battle star for World War II service.

DANFS Additional text from the public domain "Naval Historical Center.

References

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-l/lst767.htm


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