USS LST 454
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 USS LST-454 off Balikpapan during Operation Oboe 2 | |
 USS LST-454 under fire during an amphibious landing | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | USS LST 454 |
| Owner | US Navy |
| Builder | Kaiser Shipyard, Vancouver WA |
| Launched | 15 Oct 1942 |
| Completed | January 1943 |
| In service | 25 Jan 1943 |
| Out of service | 25 Mar 1946 |
| Fate | sold, 3 Oct 1947, to the Patapsco Scrap Co., Baltimore |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | LST |
| Tonnage | 4,0080 tons |
| Length | 328 ft (100m) |
| Beam | 50 ft (15.24m) |
| Depth | 3' 11" (1.2m) fwd, 9' 10" (3.0m) aft |
| Propulsion | Twin screw and rudder |
| Speed | 11.6 knots |
| Capacity | 117 crew + 163 troops |
Contents
Remarks
Assigned to the Asiatic - Pacific theatre following her launch, she was built to carry 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.
Armaments possible
- 2 Twin 40MM gun mounts
- 4 Single 40MM gun mounts
- 12 single 20MM gun mounts
Landings participated in
- Eastern New Guinea (Lae, Finschhafen, Saidor)
- Bismark Archipelago (Admiralty Islands)
- Hollandia
- Western New Guinea (Biak and Morotai)
- Leyte landings
- Luzon landings
- Southern Phillippines (Visayan Island landings)
- Borneo (Balikpapan landing)