LST-750

Sunk

Tank landing ship, LST-750. Laid down at Pittsburgh on 7 April 1944 and commissioned on 29 June 1944, Lieutenant Ralph W. Long, USNR, in command. Leyte in October and November 1944. On 28 December 1944 a Japanese aerial attack off Leyte sank her, on the DANFS reprint. H-Gram 040 says an aerial torpedo and a scuttling, in the Mindoro supply convoy. One battle star.

Type	Tank landing ship (LST)
Hull	LST-750
Builder	Dravo, Neville Island, Pittsburgh
Launched	1944-05-30
Commissioned	1944-06-29
Fate	Sunk. On 28 December 1944 a Japanese aerial attack off Leyte sank her, on the DANFS reprint. H-Gram 040 says an aerial torpedo struck her at 1830 that day, in the Mindoro supply convoy, and she was scuttled. Cressman's chronology says a kamikaze, then an aerial torpedo, then scuttling by Edwards (DD-619), at 09°01' N, 122°30' E. An older chronology prints the same latitude off Negros and the longitude 111°30' E. Those places are the sources' words. They are not a surveyed wreck. Struck from the Navy list on 19 January 1945.
Command	Long, Ralph W. Captain from 29 June 1944; DANFS names him at commissioning, Lieutenant, USNR, and gives the initial W. NavSource's command table prints Ralph Waldo Long and carries the tour through 28 December 1944. Neither account says he was killed

Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.

The pictures on this page are the originals.

Command

RLLong, Ralph W.Captain from 29 June 1944DANFS names him at commissioning, Lieutenant, USNR, and gives the initial W. NavSource's command table prints Ralph Waldo Long and carries the tour through 28 December 1944. Neither account says he was killed

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