USS LSM-20
Appearance
USS LSM-20 sinking on 5 December 1944
| |
History | |
---|---|
United States | |
Name | USS LSM-20 |
Ordered | 15 September 1943 |
Builder | Brown Shipbuilding Co., Houston, Texas |
Laid down | 24 April 1944 |
Launched | 14 May 1944 |
Commissioned | 16 June 1944 |
Stricken | 20 January 1945 |
Honors and awards | 1 battle star |
Fate | Sunk 5 December 1944 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | LSM-1-class landing ship medium |
Displacement | |
Length | 203 ft 6 in (62.03 m) |
Beam | 34 ft 6 in (10.52 m) |
Draft |
|
Speed | 13.2 knots (24.4 km/h; 15.2 mph) max. |
USS LSM-20 was a LSM-1-class landing ship medium of the United States Navy, commissioned at Brown Shipyards in Houston, Texas, on 16 June 1944.[1] During WWII, she operated in the Pacific. On 5 December 1944, the vessel sunk after she was hit by a Japanese kamikaze in the Surigao Strait in the Philippines. Five sailors were killed and another nine were wounded.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "USS LSM 20 (LSM 20) of the US Navy - American Medium landing ship of the LSM class - Allied Warships of WWII". uboat.net. Retrieved 5 February 2020.