Can Anybody Identify This Ship?

Discussion in 'War Against Japan' started by scdigger, Nov 22, 2005.

  1. scdigger

    scdigger Junior Member

    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

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  2. Gnomey

    Gnomey World Travelling Doctor

    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
     
  3. ryobreak

    ryobreak Junior Member

    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.
     
  4. Glider

    Glider Senior Member

    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
     
  5. maxs75

    maxs75 Member

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

    Max
     
  6. jayhawker

    jayhawker Junior Member

    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
     
  7. spidge

    spidge RAAF RESEARCHER

  8. syscom_3

    syscom_3 Member

    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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