LST-531 was laid down on 22 September 1943 at Evansville, Ind., by the Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co.; launched on 24 November 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Marion Yoder; and commissioned on 17 January 1944, Lt. William D. Bradley, USNR, in command. During World War II, LST-531 was sunk by a German E-boat torpedo attack in Lyme Bay, England, on 28 April 1944 while conducting a pre-invasion ...

2019年4月11日 · Reports also indicate that 467 of LST-531’s 496 men died as a result of the sinking or the explosion. By now, the remaining six ships of Convoy T-4 were zigzagging wildly as deck crews fired machine guns and cannon into the darkness. LST-289 took aim at one of the S-boats but could not escape damage.

While training in Lyme Bay (part of the English Channel south-west of England) on April 28, 1944, German torpedo boats, which had evaded patrols out of Cherbourg, France, attacked eight U.S. tank-landing ships. USS LST-507 and USS LST-531 were sunk off Portland Bill, England, and USS LST-289 was damaged. This brief action resulted in 198 Navy ...

2019年4月23日 · Efforts to quell the blaze with portable CO² extinguishers proved futile, as LST-507, listing to starboard, began sinking by the stern. The German E-boats also torpedoed LST-289 and LST-531, sinking the latter. A little less than an hour after LST-507 had first noticed gunfire from her port quarter, at 0230, Lt. Swarts ordered the ship ...

2015年8月26日 · No warning of the presence of enemy boats had been received until LST-507 was torpedoed at 0204. The ship burst into flames, and survivors abandoned ship. Several minutes later LST-531 was torpedoed and sank in six minutes. LST-289, which opened fire at E-boats, was also torpedoed but was able to reach port. The other LSTs plus two British ...

Story by Naval History and Heritage Command Public Affairs The United Kingdom Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, on the advice of Historic England, has issued protections for two sunken U.S. amphibian landing ships (LST) located off Slapton Sands in Devon, United Kingdom.

LST-530 was laid down on 23 November 1943 at Jeffersonville, Ind., by the Jeffersonville Boat & Machine Co.; launched on 25 January 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Eloise K. Glass; and commissioned on 6 March 1944. During World War II, LST-530 was assigned to the European theater and participated in the invasion of Normandy in June 1944. She was then assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific theater and took ...

2019年5月3日 · A second torpedo hit the ship and she began to sink. Eleven minutes later, two torpedoes in quick succession hit LST-531 and perhaps more mercifully sent her to the bottom in only six minutes. The skipper of LST-289, Lieutenant Henry A. Mettler, saw torpedoes inbound in enough time to put the helm hard over and avoid a broadside hit. One ...

LST-51 was laid down on 29 August 1943 at Pittsburgh, Pa., by the Dravo Corp.; launched on 22 October 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Charles A. Ward; and commissioned on 8 December 1943. During World War II, LST-51 was assigned to the European theater and participated in the following operations: Invasion of Normandy-June 1944 Invasion of southern France-August and September 1944 She was then ...

USS Hazelwood (DD-531) was laid down 11 April 1942 by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Co., San Francisco, Calif., launched 20 November 1942; sponsored by Mrs. Harold J. Fosdick; and commissioned 18 June 1943, Comdr. Hunter Wood, Jr., in command. After shakedown, USS Hazelwood (DD-531) departed the West Coast 5, September. Reaching Pearl Harbor 9 September, she sailed 2 days later with a fast ...