USS Tallahatchie County | |
Class overview | |
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Name | Talbot County class |
Builders | Boston Navy Yard |
Operators | United States Navy |
Preceded by | LST(2) class |
Succeeded by | Terrebonne Parish class |
Built | 1945-1947 |
In commission | 1946-1970 |
Planned | 3 |
Completed | 2 |
Cancelled | 1 |
Retired | 2 |
General characteristics [1] | |
Type | Tank landing ship |
Displacement | 6,000 long tons (6,096 t) |
Length | 328 ft (100 m) |
Beam | 54 ft (16 m) |
Draft | 14 ft 5 in (4.39 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
Troops | 197 |
Complement | 190 |
Armament |
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Aviation facilities | Helipad |
The Talbot County-class tank landing ships was a class of tank landing ship of the United States Navy. They were the only steam-powered LSTs built. [2]
Pennant number | Name | Callsign | Builders | Launched | Commissioned | Decommissioned | Fate |
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Talbot County-class tank landing ship [3] | |||||||
LST-1153 | Talbot County | NKHZ | Boston Navy Yard | 24 April 1947 | 3 September 1947 | 3 April 1970 | Sold to commercial service, fate unknown |
LST-1154 / AVB-2 | Tallahatchie County | NKIB | 19 July 1946 | 24 May 1949 | 15 January 1970 | Scrapped in July 1970 | |
LST-1155 | Cancelled |
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