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Name | LST-80 |
Builder | Jeffersonville Boat and Machine Co., Jeffersonville |
Laid down | 16 March 1943 |
Launched | 18 May 1943 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Jane G. Bonnie |
Commissioned | 12 July 1943 |
Fate | Transferred to Royal Navy |
History | |
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Name | LST-80 |
Commissioned | 19 July 1943 |
Stricken | 11 July 1945 |
Fate | Sunk by naval mines, 20 March 1945 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | LST-1-class tank landing ship |
Displacement |
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Length | 328 ft (100 m) oa |
Beam | 50 ft (15 m) |
Draft |
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Installed power |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
Range | 24,000 nmi (44,000 km; 28,000 mi) at 9 kn (17 km/h; 10 mph) while displacing 3,960 long tons (4,024 t) |
Boats & landing craft carried | 2 or 6 x LCVPs |
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Troops | 16 officers, 147 enlisted men |
Complement | 13 officers, 104 enlisted men |
Armament |
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USS LST-80 was a LST-1-class tank landing ship in the Royal Navy during World War II. [1]
LST-80 was laid down on 16 March 1943 at Jeffersonville Boat and Machine Co., Jeffersonville, Indiana. Launched on 18 May 1943 and commissioned on 7 July 1943. The ship was later transferred to the Royal Navy and commissioned on 19 July 1943. [2] The ship was assigned 9th LST Flotilla.
She took part in the Invasion of Normandy, June 1944.
While underway in Convoy ATM97, she was sunk by two naval mines off Ostend, Belgium, 20 March 1945.
LST-80 was struck from the Navy Register on 11 July 1945. [1]
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