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HM LST-200

LST-200 was transferred to the United Kingdom under Lend-lease Act

LST-1 Class Tank Landing Ship:

Laid down, 2 July 1942, at Chicago Bridge and Iron Co., Seneca, IL,

Launched, 20 February 1943

LST-200 saw no active service with the US Navy

Transferred to the Royal Navy, 23 March 1943

Royal Navy History
Commissioned into the Royal Navy as HM LST-200, 29 March 1943
Sailed from Halifax, Nova Scotia, for Liverpool in convoy SC 131, 18 May 1943
HM LST-200 participated in the following campaigns:
Sicilian occupation
Salerno landings
West Coast of Italy operation-1944--Anzio-Nutteno advanced landings
Invasion of Normandy
Served in the shuttle service between Tilbury, Ostend and Antwerp
Paid off and returned to US Navy custody at New York, N.Y., 27 February 1946.

Struck from the Naval Register, 17 April 1946

Sold, 26 March 1948, to Ships and Power Equipment Corp., Barber, N.J.

Resold in 1948 to Shell Oil Co.

Rebuilt as a shallow draft tanker suitable for Shell’s movement of crude oil from their Lake Maracaibo oil fields to the Shell refineries in Aruba and Curacao

Named MT Linda, reflagged Venezuela

Final Disposition, scrapped in 1957 at Ghent, Belgium

Specifications:

Displacement

1,625 t.(lt)

4,080 t.(fl) (sea-going draft w/1675 ton load)

2,366 t. (beaching displacement)

Length 328' o.a.

Beam 50'

Draft

light 2' 4" fwd, 7' 6" aft

sea-going 8' 3" fwd, 14' 1" aft

landing 3' 11" fwd, 9' 10" aft (landing w/500 ton load)

limiting 11' 2"

maximum navigation 14' 1"

Speed 11.6 kts. (trial)

Endurance 24,000 miles @ 9kts. while displacing 3960 tons

Complement

13 officers

104 enlisted

Troop Accommodations

16 officers

147 enlisted

Boats 2 LCVP

Cargo Capacity (varied with mission - payloads between 1600 and 1900 tons)

Typical loads

One Landing Craft Tank (LCT), tanks, wheeled and tracked vehicles, artillery, construction equipment and military supplies. A ramp or elevator forward allowed vehicles access to tank deck from main deck

Additional capacity included sectional pontoons carried on each side of vessel amidships, to either build Rhino Barges or use as causeways. Married to the bow ramp, the causeways would enabled payloads to be delivered ashore from deeper water or where a beachhead would not allow the vessel to be grounded forward after ballasting

Armament - US Varied with availability when each vessel was outfitted. Retro-fitting was accomplished throughout WWII. The ultimate armament design for United States vessels was

two - Twin 40MM gun mounts w/Mk. 51 directors

four - Single 40MM gun mounts

twelve single 20MM gun mounts

Armament - UK Lend Lease built vessels were to be outfitted with armament after convoying across Atlantic and included

one - 12 Pounder anti-aircraft multi-barrel mount

six - 20MM single gun mounts

four - Fast Aerial Mine (FAM) mounts

Fuel Capacity

Diesel 4,300 Bbls

Propulsion

two General Motors 12-567A, 900hp Diesel engines

single Falk Main Reduction Gears

three Diesel-drive 100Kw 230V D.C. Ship's Service Generators

two propellers, 1,700shp

twin rudders

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description		Source
Merchant Service Shell Oil Co.
	116k	Ex-*LST-200* in merchant service as the Shell Oil Co. Venezuela flagged tanker MT Linda, date and locations unknown.		Jim Swank

LST-200
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)

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