NAVYPEDIA

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Terrell County 1959

Ships

No	Name	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
LST1156	7/1955- Terrebonne Parish	316	Bath Iron Wks	2.1.1952	9.8.1952	21.11.1952	to Spain 10.1971 (Velasco)
LST1157	7.1955- Terrell County	317	Bath Iron Wks	3.3.1952	6.12.1952	14.3.1953	to Greece 3.1971 (Οινούσσαι [Oinoussai])
LST1158, 6.1972- T-LST1158	7.1955- Tioga County	318	Bath Iron Wks	16.6.1952	11.4.1953	20.6.1953	stricken 11.1973
LST1159	7.1955- Tom Green County	319	Bath Iron Wks	2.9.1952	2.7.1953	12.9.1953	to Spain 1.1972 (Conde de Venadito)
LST1160, 6.1972- T-LST1160	7.1955- Traverse County	320	Bath Iron Wks	18.12.1952	3.10.1953	19.12.1953	stricken 11.1973, to Peru (Eten)
LST1161	7.1955- Vernon County	573	Ingalls, Pascagoula	14.4.1952	25.11.1952	18.5.1953	to Venezuela 6.1973 (Amazonas)
LST1162, 4.1972- T-LST1162	7.1955- Wahkiakum County	574	Ingalls, Pascagoula	21.7.1952	23.1.1953	13.8.1953	stricken 11.1973
LST1163, 5.1972- T-LST1163	7.1955- Waldo County	575	Ingalls, Pascagoula	4.8.1952	17.5.1953	17.9.1953	stricken 11.1973, to Peru (Pisco)
LST1164, 5.1972- T-LST1164	7.1955- Walworth County	576	Ingalls, Pascagoula	22.9.1952	15.5.1953	26.10.1953	stricken 11.1973, to Peru (Paita)
LST1165, 1.1973- T-LST1165	7.1955- Washoe County	577	Ingalls, Pascagoula	1.12.1952	14.7.1953	30.11.1953	stricken 11.1973, to Peru (Callao)
LST1166, 2.1973- MSS2	7.1955- Washtenaw County	372	Christy SB, Sturgeon Bay	29.11.1951	22.11.1952	29.10.1953	special device minesweeper 2.1973, stricken 8.1973
LST1167	7.1955- Westchester County	373	Christy SB, Sturgeon Bay	11.1.1952	18.4.1953	10.3.1954	to Turkey 8.1974 (Serdar)
LST1168	7.1955- Wexford County	374	Christy SB, Sturgeon Bay	27.2.1952	28.11.1953	15.6.1954	to Spain 10.1971 (Martín Álvarez)
LST1169	7.1955- Whitfield County	375	Christy SB, Sturgeon Bay	21.11.1952	22.8.1953	14.9.1954	stricken 8.1976, to Greece (Κος [Kos])
LST1170	7.1955- Windham County	376	Christy SB, Sturgeon Bay	21.4.1953	22.5.1954	15.12.1954	to Turkey 6.1973 (Ertuğrul)

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	2590
Displacement full, t	5777
Length, m	117.1
Breadth, m	17.1
Draught, m	4.90
No of shafts	2
Machinery	4 General Motors diesels
Power, h. p.	6000
Max speed, kts	15.5
Fuel, t	diesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts)	15000(9)
Armament	3 x 2 - 76/50 Mk 33, 5 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, helicopter deck
Military load	10 tanks or 17 LVTP or 2000t of cargo, 391 marines, 3 LCVP, 1 LCPL
Electronic equipment	SPS-10, 2x Mk 34, SPN-11/13 radars
Complement	205

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Project history

Probably the greatest disappointment of the early postwar amphibious programme was the failure to develop a fast LST. Quite radical schemes were tried, including a design with bow propellers, which would turn its blunt stern to the beach, and one with a long false bow. Instead, a maximun speed of 15kts was accepted, and these fifteen ships were modified experimental units (LST1153 and 1154) laid down at the end of the Second World War, with diesel plants replacing the steam engines of the earlier ships. All had increased troop accommodation, greater tank and cargo capacity and improved discharge arrangements as compared to wartime LSTs. Thus they had a powered vehicle turntable, hydraulic bow doors, heavier ramps, and pontoon causeways. Their hull lines were also finer than those of earlier LSTs, and they had reversible pitch propellers.

The entire LST1156 class was authorised (as SCB-9) under the FY52 programme, as part of the renaissance of the amphibious force after the demonstration of its continued value during the Korean War

Modernizations

1950s, all: - 5 x 1 - 20/70

1973, Washtenaw County: was converted to 'special device minesweeper' (MSS), some kind of renaissance of WWII-era mine destructor vessel and was used for sweeping fairwaters in Vietnam.

Naval service

No significant events.