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History
United States
Name
USS LST-1153
Builder
Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts
Laid down
19 July 1945
Launched
24 April 1947
Commissioned
3 September 1947
Decommissioned
3 April 1970
Renamed
USS Talbot County (LST-1153), 1 July 1955
Stricken
1 May 1973
Fate
Sold for scrapping
General characteristics
Class and type
Talbot County-class tank landing ship
Displacement
6,000 long tons (6,096 t)
Length
382 ft (116 m)
Beam
54 ft (16 m)
Draft
14 ft 5 in (4.39 m)
Propulsion
2 × 450 psi (3,100 kPa) Babcock & Wilcox boilers
2 geared turbines, (forward engine room, Westinghouse, after engine room General Electric)
Speed
14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Boats & landing craft carried
3 × LCVPs
1 × LCPL
Troops
197
Complement
190
Armament
2 × single 5-inch/38-caliber guns
2 × twin 40 mm guns
2 × single 20 mm guns
(The 20 & 40 mm guns were removed prior to 1958)
USS Talbot County (LST-1153) was a tank landing ship (LST) built for the United States Navy just after World War II. The lead ship of her class of only two vessels, she was named after counties in Maryland and Georgia, and was the only U.S. Naval vessel to bear the name.
USSTalbotCounty (LST-1153) was a tank landing ship (LST) built for the United States Navy just after World War II. The lead ship of her class of only...
for commanding USS Constitution from 1799 to 1801. Talbot was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati's branch in New York. Talbot was born in Dighton...
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vessel under the Philippine Navy. Originally known as USS LST-821, it was renamed to USS Harnett County (LST-821/AGP-281), built for the United States Navy...
operated by Pope & Talbot for WSA under Army and general standard agreements. On 9 April 1946 the ship was redelivered to Pope & Talbot and sold 14 April...
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commanded USS Constellation. For his first assignment he had previously[when?] overseen her construction in Baltimore, Maryland, with Silas Talbot. After...
commercial service in 1947 and was scrapped in 1976. USS Guilford was named for Guilford County, North Carolina, she was the only U.S. Naval vessel to...
and fires in the Houston Ship Channel USS Phillips (SP-1389), US Navy patrol boat during World War I Phillips County (disambiguation) Philipps (disambiguation)...
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American Civil War; a lawyer; Maryland politician; Maryland Senator, TalbotCounty, (1894–96); Secretary of State of Maryland (1904–08); affiliate of the...
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CSS Virginia to be his flagship. Buchanan was the captain of CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) during the Battle of Hampton Roads in Virginia. He climbed to...
suspension for the innovative Mini, in the late 1950s; Lucien Gerard, from Talbot, and Walter Becchia, who designed the two-cylinder water-cooled horizontally-opposed...
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