USS LST-823

History
United States
Name	USS LST-823
Builder	Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co., Evansville, Indiana
Laid down	25 September 1944
Launched	4 November 1944
Commissioned	28 December 1944
Decommissioned	1 December 1945
Stricken	3 January 1946
Honours and; awards	1 battle star (World War II)
Fate	Sold, May 1947
General characteristics
Class and type	LST-542-class tank landing ship
Displacement	1,490 long tons (1,514 t) light; 4,080 long tons (4,145 t) full;
Length	328 ft (100 m)
Beam	50 ft (15 m)
Draft	8 ft (2.4 m) forward; 14 ft 4 in (4.37 m) aft;
Propulsion	2 × General Motors 12-567 diesel engines, two shafts
Speed	10.8 knots (20.0 km/h; 12.4 mph)
Complement	7 officers, 104 enlisted men
Armament	6 × 40 mm guns; 6 × 20 mm guns;

USS LST-823 was an LST-542-class tank landing ship in the United States Navy. Like many of her class, she was not named and is properly referred to by her hull designation.

LST-823 was laid down on 25 September 1944 at Evansville, Indiana, by the Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co.; launched on 4 November 1944; sponsored by Miss Olinda M. Brune; and commissioned on 28 November 1944.

Service history

LST-823 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific theater. She arrived at Pearl Harbor in February 1945 and delivered Seabees and cargo to Guam in March. At the end of May she and another LST, one towing a landing craft and the other a repair barge, sailed from Guam for Okinawa. On 4 June the small convoy rode out a typhoon that drove it some eighty miles off course. LST-823 entered Okinawa's Buckner Bay in early July, but went to sea in mid-July to evade a typhoon. She called at Saipan in early August, delivered ammunition to Iwo Jima in mid-August, and returned to Buckner Bay in early September.

Typhoon

Caught off guard inside Buckner Bay by a typhoon on 16 September 1945, LST-823 was driven onto the Kutaka Shima reef there. She was pulled off a week later by the salvage ship Valve (ARS-28), but both engines were inoperative and the starboard engine and shaft were badly out of alignment. While awaiting drydocking at Buckner Bay she was caught by another typhoon on 9 October which tore her loose from her moorings, drove her into two other ships, and then deposited her on a reef parallel to and 75 yards (69 m) from the shore near the entrance to the Yonabaru Channel. Her entire bottom was badly damaged and holed and both main engines were badly misaligned. LST-823 patched up her leaks with cement and became a fueling and provisions ship for small craft. The ship was not refloated, and in early November an inspection and survey party noted that she would need two weeks in drydock before she could be towed to a rear area and recommended she be decommissioned in place. Her gear was stripped away and taken to Guam, and she was decommissioned at the beginning of December 1945 and stricken from the Navy List in early January 1946. In May 1947, the hulk was sold to the Oklahoma-Philippines Co.

LST-823 earned one battle star for World War II service.

References

Naval Historical Center

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.

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USS LST-823

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