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LST's - Landing Ship Tank

LST's -- Large Slow Targets.  This model is 15" long
and can be built to make a very nice display model.
Kit# AX111 $29.95    Our price $24.95 decals for all ships hull #'s  5.00 extra.

 

LST-627 by Kieran Griffith built this inexpensive kit added a great paint job and railings on a wooden base she looks like she's ready for the Pacific War. For pics click below. modelshipgallery.com

Additional Links

• The Webset That Lists Every LST
• LST Home Port
• US LST Association
  • California State Chapter
  • Washington State Chaper
• Ohio LST Amphibious Association

U.S. Navy > Historic Amphibious Landing Craft

• Small Boats and Large Slow Targets; Oral Histories of United States' Amphibious Forces Personnel in WWII, Robert E. Witter (Pictorial Hostires: 1998)
   
• Displacement: 1490 tons (lite); 4,080 tons (full load of 2,100 tons)
• Length: 327'
• Beam: 50'
• Draft: 8' fwd; 14'4" aft (full load)
• Speed: 10.8 knots (max); 9 knots (econ)
• Armament: 1 3"/50 DP; 1 40mm; 6 20mm
• Complement: 7 officers, 204 enlisted
• Diesel engines, twin screws
• LSTs carry smaller craft topside, a tunnel-like hold full of tanks, vehicles, guns or cargo.
• 1,152 ordered from Nov 41 to the end of the War

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