Name LST-11 Launched 18 November 1942 Name LST-11 | Laid down 8 August 1942 Sponsored by Miss Virginia Fowler | |
Status Transferred to the United Kingdom 22 March 1943 | ||
USS LST-11 was an LST-1-class tank landing ship of the United States Navy. LST-11 was transferred to the Royal Navy in early 1943 to serve in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations, the Normandy Invasion, and to the Pacific Theater of Operations during 1944 and 1945.
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Construction
LST-11 was laid down on 8 August 1942 by the Dravo Corporation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, launched on 18 November 1942, sponsored by Miss Virginia Fowler. She was transferred to and commissioned by the Royal Navy 23 March 1943.
Service history
LST-11 left from Hampton Roads, Virginia for the Mediterranean on 14 May 1943, with convoy UGS 8A, arriving in Oran, Algeria, sometime before 8 June 1943.
Mediterranean and European operations
LST-11 was assigned to the European theater and participated in the Anzio Advanced Landings from January to March of 1944. LST-11 was sent to Cardiff, Wales, for repairs in May 1944. She then participated in the Normandy landings in June 1944, and was this time sent to Thames and Portsmouth for repairs in June and August 1944.
Pacific operations
LST-11 was then assigned to the Pacific theater and participated in what was originally planned to be Operation Zipper, the recapture of Malay, in September 1945, but with Japan surrendering this was an unopposed action.
Postwar service
She was paid off at Subic Bay on 13 April 1946, and returned to the US Navy on 13 May 1946. LST-11 was struck from the Naval Register on 5 June 1946.
LST-11 was sold on 5 December 1947 to Bosey in the Philippines. Her final fate is not known.