USN · LST
SunkTank landing ship, LST-472. Laid down at Vancouver, Washington, on 31 October 1942 and commissioned on 13 March 1943. From the Solomons through New Guinea to Mindoro, which H-Gram 040 calls her thirteenth assault. On 15 December 1944 a kamikaze set her on fire off the beaches. She was abandoned and sunk by U.S. gunfire. The current DANFS page dates the sinking 21 December.
| Type | Tank landing ship (LST) |
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| Hull | LST-472 |
| Builder | Kaiser, Vancouver |
| Launched | 1942-12-07 |
| Commissioned | 1943-03-13 |
| Fate | Sunk. On 15 December 1944, off the Mindoro landing beaches, a kamikaze hit her main deck and knocked out the water mains. She was abandoned, with six dead, and sunk by U.S. gunfire. The current DANFS page dates that sinking 21 December 1944. The older DANFS text, H-Gram 040, and the Navy chronology put it on 15 December. Struck from the Navy list on 19 January 1945. |
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Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.
LST-472 burning, the bow marked 472. NavSource dates this frame 21 December 1944. That date is not printed on the photograph. U.S. Navy photograph. Public domain.
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