Can Anybody Identify This Ship?

scdigger · 22-11-2005, 03:11 PM

Here is a picture my grandfather took of the ship he was stationed on, upon their landing in Nagasaki just a couple of days after the bombing. Can anyone identify this ship? Or can anyone direct me to a place that may help? Thanks!!!

Greg

Gnomey · 22-11-2005, 03:39 PM

Looks to me like an LCT. I ran a search for LCT 845 and got the following:
Built by: Kansas City Structural Steel Co., Kansas City, Mo
Keel Laid: 3 June 44
Launched: 6 July 44
Delivered: 13 July 44
She was an LCT Mark VI:
* Displacement: 309 tons (landing)
* Length: 119'
* Beam: 32'
* Draft: 3'7" forward, 4' aft (landing)
* Speed: 8 knots
* Armament: 2 20mm
* Complement: 1 officer, 12 enlisted
* Capacity: 4 medium or 3 50-ton tanks; or 150 tons cargo; accomodations for 8 troops
* 3 Gray 225 hp diesels; triple screws

ryobreak · 30-12-2005, 11:02 PM

The 845 is a typical mark of an LCT, used for landing infantry and medium sized tanks ashore. I don't think you can identify them apart from one another.

Glider · 31-12-2005, 12:01 AM

I believe that she was an LST numbered 845 called the Jefferson County. She was launched in Oct 1944 and commissioned on Jan 1 1945.

The following is a link that gives all the details and her history. I am sure that its her as the details in the photo match perfectly.

Hope this helps

http://www.navsource.org/archives/10/160845.htm

maxs75 · 13-02-2006, 02:16 PM

Yes, it should be an LST. The LCTs were similar but smaller.

Max

jayhawker · 19-05-2007, 11:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gnomey

Looks to me like an LCT. I ran a search for LCT 845 and got the following:
Built by: Kansas City Structural Steel Co., Kansas City, Mo
Keel Laid: 3 June 44
Launched: 6 July 44
Delivered: 13 July 44
She was an LCT Mark VI:
* Displacement: 309 tons (landing)
* Length: 119'
* Beam: 32'
* Draft: 3'7" forward, 4' aft (landing)
* Speed: 8 knots
* Armament: 2 20mm
* Complement: 1 officer, 12 enlisted
* Capacity: 4 medium or 3 50-ton tanks; or 150 tons cargo; accomodations for 8 troops
* 3 Gray 225 hp diesels; triple screws

The LCT was built by said co. but it is located across the stateline in Kansas City Kansas

spidge · 20-05-2007, 04:05 AM

Gliders link has changed to this:

Tank Landing Ship LST-845

syscom_3 · 05-06-2007, 06:11 PM

What a coincidence........... my neighbor (who just passed away a few weeks ago) was a sailor on the LST-843. Both of these LST's at Ambridge, Pa., by the American Bridge Co.

LST 845 was commisioned one month after my neighbors LST sailed to the war.

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Gnomey Per Ardua Ad Astra Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK Posts: 1,725	Looks to me like an LCT. I ran a search for LCT 845 and got the following: Built by: Kansas City Structural Steel Co., Kansas City, Mo Keel Laid: 3 June 44 Launched: 6 July 44 Delivered: 13 July 44 She was an LCT Mark VI: * Displacement: 309 tons (landing) * Length: 119' * Beam: 32' * Draft: 3'7" forward, 4' aft (landing) * Speed: 8 knots * Armament: 2 20mm * Complement: 1 officer, 12 enlisted * Capacity: 4 medium or 3 50-ton tanks; or 150 tons cargo; accomodations for 8 troops * 3 Gray 225 hp diesels; triple screws __________________ "Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few" Sir Winston Chuchill, Summer 1940 "To him the people of Britain and the free world owe largely the way of life they enjoy today" Ensciption on Hugh Dowding's (AOC Fighter Command 1936-1940) Statue in London Moderator: Aircraft of World War 2 Forum - A Warbird Forum

20-05-2007, 04:05 AM	#7 (permalink)
spidge Very Senior Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 7,268	Gliders link has changed to this: Tank Landing Ship LST-845 __________________ Spidge, My project is the collection of over 11,200 RAAF Headstone/Memorial photos located in 67 countries during WW2 and the 360+ from WW1. Can you assist? Do you know someone that can? ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the State flag of Victoria. My dad, Gunner Frederick Edwin Swallow "C" Company, 2/8th Battalion, 19th Brigade, 6th Division AIF. Critically wounded on the first attack on Tobruk, January 21st 1941.

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syscom_3 Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Orange County Posts: 61	What a coincidence........... my neighbor (who just passed away a few weeks ago) was a sailor on the LST-843. Both of these LST's at Ambridge, Pa., by the American Bridge Co. LST 845 was commisioned one month after my neighbors LST sailed to the war. __________________ "Pilot to co-pilot, what are those mountain goats doing up here in these clouds?"

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22-11-2005, 03:11 PM	#1 (permalink)
scdigger Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 3	Here is a picture my grandfather took of the ship he was stationed on, upon their landing in Nagasaki just a couple of days after the bombing. Can anyone identify this ship? Or can anyone direct me to a place that may help? Thanks!!! Greg

30-12-2005, 11:02 PM	#3 (permalink)
ryobreak Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 26	The 845 is a typical mark of an LCT, used for landing infantry and medium sized tanks ashore. I don't think you can identify them apart from one another.

31-12-2005, 12:01 AM	#4 (permalink)
Glider Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 203	I believe that she was an LST numbered 845 called the Jefferson County. She was launched in Oct 1944 and commissioned on Jan 1 1945. The following is a link that gives all the details and her history. I am sure that its her as the details in the photo match perfectly. Hope this helps http://www.navsource.org/archives/10/160845.htm

13-02-2006, 02:16 PM	#5 (permalink)
maxs75 Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 61	Yes, it should be an LST. The LCTs were similar but smaller. Max

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