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USS LST-793

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Golf - Zulu - Echo
NGZE

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)

USS LST-793 was manned by the US Coast Guard during World War II

LST-542 Class Tank Landing Ship:

Laid down, 23 July 1944, at Dravo Corp. Pittsburgh, PA.

Launched, 2 September 1944

Commissioned USS LST-793, 5 October 1944 at New Orleans, LA., LT. George A. Miller, USCG, in command

During World War II USS LST-793 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
LST Flotilla Twenty-Nine, CAPT. C. H. Peterson USCG (25)
LST Group Eight-Six, CDR. W. B. Millington USCG (32)
LST Division One Hundred Seventy-Two and participated in the following campaign:

Campaign and Dates
Asiatic-Pacific Campaign
Okinawa Gunto operation Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 26 March to 29 April 1945

Following World War II, LST-793 was assigned to Occupation service in the Far East from 9 to 25 September 1945

Decommissioned, 29 April 1946

Struck from the Naval Register, 3 July 1946

>USS LST-793 earned one battle star for World War II service

Final Disposition, sold for commercial operations, 16 December 1947 to the Tex-O-Kan Flour Mills Co., Dallas, TX.

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

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By
	44k	USS LST-793 launching, 2 September 1944, at Dravo Corp., East Yard, Pittsburgh, PA.	LST-793 web site
	21k	USS LST-793 beached with bow doors open, date and location unknown.	LST-793 web site
	26k	USS LST-793 underway, date and location unknown.	LST-793 web site
	29k	USS LST-793 beached while off-loading tracked vehicles, date and location unknown.	Photo by Ken Culver, LST-793 web site
1016079305	2223k	USS LST-793 beached while loading a US Army 5 ton truck and traller, date and location unknown.	Brian Miller
	64k	USS LST-793 beached while loading/unloading refugees, date and location unknown. US Coast Guard photo from the collections of the US Coast Guard Historian's Office.	Mike Green
1016079307	2568k	USS LST-793, USS LST-769 and USS LST-760 beached while unloading, date and location unknown.	Brian Miller

USS LST-793
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)

Commanding Officers
01	LT. Miller, George A., USCG	5 October 1944 to 6 February 1946
02	LT. Emric, Rudolph R., USCGR	6 February 1946 - 29 April 1946


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Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
The USS LST Ship Memorial
LST 793
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State LST Chapters
United States LST Association

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