USN · LST
SunkTank landing ship, LST-738. Laid down at Pittsburgh on 20 February 1944 and commissioned on 9 May 1944, Lieutenant John T. Barnett, USNR, in command. Leyte in October 1944 and Mindoro in December. On 15 December a kamikaze set her on fire off the landing beaches. She was abandoned and sunk by the guns of other ships in the invasion fleet.
| Type | Tank landing ship (LST) |
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| Hull | LST-738 |
| Builder | Dravo, Neville Island, Pittsburgh |
| Launched | 1944-04-01 |
| Commissioned | 1944-05-09 |
| Fate | Sunk. On 15 December 1944, off the Mindoro landing beaches, a kamikaze set her on fire. The fire was not controlled. She was abandoned, and the guns of other ships of the invasion fleet sank her. Moale took off 88 of her crew. 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.
Naval Historical Center photograph NH 97259. The legend on the print reads USS LST-738 burning off Mindoro, December 1944, with Moale alongside. The archive note says the hole is just forward of a painted 738. On this scan the figures look like 736. U.S. Navy photograph. Public domain.
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