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USS LST-1016


International Radio Call Sign:
November - Victor - Quebec - Hotel
 NVQH
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (2) - World War II Victory Medal
Bottom Row - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - Philippines Presidential Unit Citation - Philippines Liberation Medal (1)
LST-542 Class Tank Landing Ship:
  • Laid down, 25 March 1944, at Bethlehem Steel Co., Quincy, MA.
  • Launched, 25 April 1944
  • Commissioned USS LST-1016, 10 May 1944, LT. John W. Chapman, USNR, in command
  • During World War II USS LST-1016 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
    LST Flotilla Eight, CAPT. E. Watts, USN;
    LST Group Twenty-Three, CDR. T.C. Linthicum, USN;
    LST Division Forty-Five and participated in the following campaigns:

    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    Consolidation and capture of the Southern Philippines
    Mindanao Island landing, 17 to 23 April 1945     		Borneo operations
    Balikpapan operation, 24 June to 9 July 1945

  • Following World War II USS LST-1016 was assigned to Occupation service in the Far East for the following periods:

    Navy Occupation Service Medal
    1 to 26 October 1945
    14 November to 15 December 1945
    27 December 1945 to 24 February 1946

  • Decommissioned, 26 June 1946
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 31 July 1946
  • USS LST-1016 earned two battle stars for World War II service
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 9 December 1947, to the Learner Co., Oakland, CA.
    Specifications:
    Displacement
    1,625 t.(lt)
    4,080 t.(fl) (sea-going draft w/1675 ton load)
    2,366 t.
    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 (varied with availability when each vessel was outfitted. Retro-fitting was accomplished throughout WWII. The ultimate armament design for United States vessels was
    2 - Twin 40MM gun mounts w/Mk. 51 directors
    4 - Single 40MM gun mounts
    12 single 20MM gun 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
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    LST-740 44k USS LST-1016 and USS LST-740 beached at Balikpapan, Borneo, 14 July 1945. Clark E. Parks SM1/c USS LST-740
    LST-1016 123k USS LST-1016 at Balikpapan, Borneo, date unknown.
    Photo courtesy collection of Alan Meade RAN 1843-46.    		 Kin Dunstan, RAN (Ret.)
    LST-1016
    1016101602    		 245k USS LST-1016 with Japanese POWs in January 1946.
    Written on the back of photo 1016101602. "Loading Japs aboard the L.S.T. 1016 at Shanghai, China Jan. 1946"    		 Keith Brooker
    LST-1016
    1016101603    		 200k
    LST-1016
    1016101604    		 652k USS LST-1016 underway in San Francisco Bay returning the the United States after completing duty in the Far East, circa 1946.
    US Navy photo from the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum, Vallejo, CA.    		 Darryl Baker
    USS LST-1016
    Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)
    Commanding Officers
    01LT. Chapman, John W. USNR10 May 1944 - December 1945
    02LTjg. Kane, Benjamin G. USNRDecember 1945 - 30 January 1945
    03LTjg. Ratti, Robert S. USNR30 January 1945 - 26 June 1946
    Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    The USS LST Ship Memorial
    LST Home Port
    State LST Chapters
    United States LST Association
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