USS Wood County (LST-1178) seen marrying up with LCU-1612 and another LCU to form a causeway to the beach, date and place unknown
History
United States
Name
USS Wood County
Namesake
Wood County, Ohio
Wood County, Texas
Wood County, West Virginia
Wood County, Wisconsin
Builder
American Ship Building Company, Lorain, Ohio
Laid down
1 October 1956
Launched
14 December 1957
Commissioned
5 August 1959
Decommissioned
1 May 1972
Stricken
16 February 1989
Identification
IMO number: 8450366
Honours and awards
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Dominican Republic)
Fate
Scrapped, July 2002
General characteristics
Class and type
De Soto County-class tank landing ship
Displacement
3,560 long tons (3,617 t) light
7,823 long tons (7,949 t) full load
Length
446 ft (136 m)
Beam
62 ft (19 m)
Draft
17 ft (5.2 m)
Propulsion
6 × Cooper Bessemer diesel engines, replaced in September, 1969 with six Fairbanks-Morse diesels, two propellers
Speed
17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph)
Boats & landing craft carried
4 LCVPs
Capacity
28 medium tanks or vehicles to 75 tons on 288 ft (88 m) tank deck
100,000 gal (US) diesel or jet fuel, plus 7,000 gal fuel for embarked vehicles
Troops
410 officers and enlisted men
Complement
170 officers and enlisted men
Armament
3 × twin 3"/50 caliber gun mounts
USS Wood County (LST-1178) was a De Soto County-class tank landing ship built for the United States Navy during the late 1950s. Named after counties in Ohio, Texas, West Virginia, and Wisconsin, she was the only U.S. Naval vessel to bear the name.
Wood County was designed under project SCB 119 and laid down on 1 October 1956, at Lorain, Ohio by the American Ship Building Company; launched on 14 December 1957; sponsored by Miss Margaret Ackerman, daughter of the president of the American Shipbuilding Company; and commissioned on 5 August 1959 at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, Virginia.
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