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HM LST-365

LST-365 was transferred to the United Kingdom for the duration of World War II

LST-1 Class Tank Landing Ship:

Laid down, 14 October 1942, at Bethlehem Steel Co., Quincy, MA.

Launched, 11 November 1942

Transferred to the United Kingdom and commissioned HM LST-365, 14 December 1942

Royal Navy History
Commissioned into the Royal Navy as HM LST-365, 14 December 1942
Sailed from Halifax, Nova Scotia, in convoy SC122 / HX229 in company with HM LST-305
Sailed from Scotland in convoy KMS18A to the Mediterranean
HM LST-365 participated in the following campaigns:
Sicilian occupation
Salerno landings
West Coast of Italy operations-1944--Anzio-Nettuno advanced landings
Invasion of Normandy

HM LST-365 additional services and actions
Operated in the shuttle service between Tilbury, Ostend and Antwerp
Assisted in relief of Norway
Made one trip to Channel Islands in September 1945

Suffered considerable damage in storm on passage to Greenock, Scotland in December 1945
Mudberthed at the head of Loch Striven in Scotland and paid off, 29 July 1946

Struck from the Naval Register, 15 October 1946

Acquired, 5 June 1947, by Seafreeze Industries Limited, Glasgow subsidiary Fresh Frozen Foods, Ltd., Ayrshire, Scotland, named Mowbray Road

Mowbray Road first appears in Lloyds Register in a 1948-1949 supplementary listing (This might be the year when she actually was registered by Fresh Frozen Foods Ltd._

Acquired by British Railways, circa 1950 for the ferry service between Stranraer and Larne, named Mowbray Road

Acquired in 1952 by Senkat, Republic of Indonesia, registered in Djkarta, Indonesia

Renamed Adri 1 in 1953

Final Disposition, possibly scrapped in 1961-1962

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
HM LST-365
	52k	HM LST-365 underway in rough seas with a full cargo of vehicles on deck, date and location unknown.	Lubin Poulton for his father Albert Harry Poulton (Ginger) HM LST-365
	56k	HM LST-365 center, and HM LST-320 left, high and dry on 'Sword' beach, Normandy, while unloading, June 1944	Robert Hurst
	90k	HM LST-365 and HM LST -368 landing equipment and material at Normandy, June 1944.	Robert Hurst
	76k	HM LST-365 disembarking German Prisoners of War at Southampton, UK, date unknown.	Lubin Poulton for his father Albert Harry Poulton (Ginger) HM LST-365
	35k	HM LST-365 bringing much needed supplies to Guernsey after its liberation in May 1945.	Ed Storey
	77k	HM LST-365 at Ostend, Belgian while delivering cargo of vehicles, date unknown,	Lubin Poulton for his father Albert Harry Poulton (Ginger) HM LST-365
	74k
	62k	HM LST-365 moored at Tilbury, Christmas Eve 1944	Lubin Poulton for his father Albert Harry Poulton (Ginger) HM LST-365
	57k	HM LST-365 anchored at Brunsbuttel, Germany, where the Kiel canal joins the River Elbe, May 1945.	Robert Hurst
	43k	View from the bridge of HM LST-365 showing other LSTs in single line as they are about to enter the River Elbe, en-route to Hamburg, during Operation 'Doomsday', in May 1945.	Robert Hurst
	54k	HM LST-365 at anchor in the Elbe River, May 1945.	Lubin Poulton for his father Albert Harry Poulton (Ginger) HM LST-365
	64k	HM LST-365 being welcomed by the people of Stavanger, Norway, June 1945.	Robert Hurst
	82k	HM LST-365 moored pierside at Stavanger, Norway. June 1945.	Lubin Poulton for his father Albert Harry Poulton (Ginger) HM LST-365
Merchant Service
1016036514	81k	*Mowbray Road* moored on a ramp loading/unloading railroad cars while in British Railways servcie, date and location unknown. Photo from ©Cumbrian Railways Association Photos Collection	Trevor Wilson