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USS LST-727


International Radio Call Sign:
November - Foxtrot - Zulu - November
 NFZN
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - China Service Medal (extended) - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)
LST-542 Class Tank Landing Ship:
  • Laid down, 8 August 1944, at Jeffersonville Boat and Machine Co., Jeffersonville, IN.
  • Launched, 10 September 1944
  • Commissioned USS LST-727, 4 October 1944, LTjg. C. P. Campbell USNR, in command
  • During World War II USS LST-727 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
    LST Flotilla Twenty-Five, CAPT. H. E. Richter USN (24);
    LST Group Seventy-Three CDR. L D. York USNR;
    LST Division One Hundred Forty-Five
  • Following World War II USS LST-727 was assigned to Occupation and China service in the Far East for the following periods:

    Navy Occupation Service Medal
    China Service Medal (extended)
    25 December 1945 to 20 February 194625 December 1945 to 20 February 1946

  • Decommissioned, 26 July 1946
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 28 August 1946
  • Sold, 15 June 1948, to Steele Powers for operation
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    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 (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-727
    1016072702    		 40k USS LST-727 beached, date and location unknown. Photo by LT. William Irving
    LST-727
    1016072704    		 304k USS LST-727 moored pierside, berth 11, Navy Yard Pearl Harbor, T.H., 13 or 14 August 1945. USS Sigsbee (DD-502) is outboard and USS Corregidor (CVE-58) is across the berth.
    US National Archives photo # 80-G-K-6051, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.    		 Rick E. Davis and John Chiquoine
    LST-727/172/1001 62k USS LST-1001, USS LST-727 and USS LST-172 moored at Hawaii, 1945 Photo by Lawrence (Larry) LaFlamme GM/2c
    LST-727 222k USS LST-727 at anchor in San Francisco Bay, CA. with LCT-1385 loaded on her main deck, circa late February 1946.
    US Naval History and Heritage Command, Photo # NH 79099. Courtesy of D. M. McPherson, 1974.    		 Mike Green
    USS LST-727
    Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)
    Commanding Officers
    01LTjg. Campbell, C. P., USNR4 October 1944 - 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 Homeport
    State LST Chapters
    United States LST Association
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