USS Raritan (LSM-540)

The third USS "Raritan" (LSM-540) was a landing ship medium in the United States Navy following World War II. She was named for a river in New Jersey.

"Raritan" was laid down 10 May 1945 at Brown Shipbuilding Corporation, Houston, Texas, launched August 1945, commissioned as USS "LSM-540" 6 December 1945, Lieutenant Roy T. Rector, USNR in command. She was decommissioned 29 May 1946, at Green Cove Springs, Florida and laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Florida Group, Green Cove Springs.

Recommissioned 4 November 1957, she was renamed USS "Raritan" (LSM-540) 14 October 1959, then decommissioned 1 December 1959 at Norfolk, Virginia and struck from the Naval Vessel Register 1 January 1960.

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