The FReeper Foxhole Profiles the LST -- Landing Ships, Tank - April 9th, 2004

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[bogdanPolska12]

That is not fair :}}}}}}}}}

Stay safe Sam, God bless America and families whose love ones are in battle right now.

Bogdan

[Colonel_Flagg]

Sorta. Supposed to snow again this evening. This is depressing to me.

[SAMWolf]

LOL! You're a great resource for the Foxhole. :-)

[SAMWolf]

That is not fair

I know but I'm gonna enjoy it anyway. :-)

[bogdanPolska12]

wise ass :}}}}}}}}}}}}


lol, thanks Sam

God Bless
Bogdan

[snippy_about_it]

wise ass

LOL. I see you know our Sam well. ;-)

[snippy_about_it]

Snow would depress me too, it always did.

[SAMWolf]

Everyone likes a little ass but no one likes a wiseass. :-)

[bogdanPolska12]

O lord, sam, lol, bwhehehehe.

Happy Easter buddy
Bogdan, you are cracking me up here. Oh man

[SwinneySwitch]

"Battling Bastards of Bataan" Camp O'Donnell Memorial Monument "The Battling Bastards of Bataan, No Mama, No Papa, No Uncle Sam, No aunts, no uncles, no cousins, no nieces, No pills, no planes, no artillery pieces, And nobody gives a damn!" by Frank Hewlett, 1942.

[Professional Engineer]

A SpankenTruppen for Snippy.

[Valin]

And the lesson we learned from this is, don't take a large warship into a narrow fjord.

[Valin]

Let's just say I have my sources, and leave it at that. :-)

[snippy_about_it]

I like my men a tad more manly than that! LOL. I'll get you for this.

[Darksheare]

Coolbeans!

[The Mayor]

we are warmung a little, today was really nice, sunny and in the 40's.
nice taste of spring....

[GATOR NAVY]

And here I thought they just drove 'em up on the beach and opened the doors

I kind of thought that when I got on my first LST. I had no idea what a complicated evolution beaching was.

For our part in navigation, the most critical part was determining when the stern anchor would be dropped. An LST retracts from the beach using the stern anchor. Engines alone will not do it. Drop too early and you run out of cable before you ground out (very embarassing and good for an ass chewing from the captain). Drop too late and the stern anchor won't have enough cable out to pull you off.

Beaching speed was slow-about 2 or 3 knots. I only remember one time really feeling a jolt when we stopped. And we never did the high and dry thing like the WWII pics.

Once beached we constantly took bearings to watch our movement. Too much movement while beached was not good, but on the other hand, if there was no movement at all the ship might be digging itself a big hole which would be hard to get of.

LSTs were interesting ships for navigation. I can say with pride I've run agound tens of times in my 7 1/2 years spent on LSTs and never got in trouble for it.

NEWPORT class bow ramp. Designed for the LST to have a normal hull configuration at the bow to enable 20 knot speed.

[GATOR NAVY]

One thing the article neglected-no ship rode as badly as an LST. Old style or new they were terrible rollers, and it was quick snapping roll that you never got used to. We had a bell on the bridge. It would ring by itself if the ship rolled 53 degrees. It rang quite a few times.

[GATOR NAVY]

The first pic gives you a good idea of the hieght of the wave in the second pic.

[PhilDragoo]

LST-614 by David J LaPell

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US Beach Landing Operations, 1943-45

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Accessory Drive End and Side of Engine

Main Engine Engine room of an LST

Oh, I thought you said LSD--I must be having a flashback. Did you know I was in Vietnam? Only for four months to rape, pillage and murder, but yak yak blah blah et cetera and so forth. . . .

Spankentruppen für den wirklichen Mann