"user314" (user314)
05/12/2020 at 12:00 • Filed to: boatlopnik, Pittsburgh, WWII, Navy
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"user314" (user314)
05/12/2020 at 12:00 • Filed to: boatlopnik, Pittsburgh, WWII, Navy | 4
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In 1941 a delegation from the Royal Navy met with their counterparts from the US Navy to pool ideas for producing ships for the war effort. One of the ideas to come out of this effort was a new ship to deliver men and material to the beach during amphibious landings. In order to free up other yards for front line warships, most of these
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would be constructed in the interior of the US, at “cornfield shipyards” along the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, then floated down to New Orleans for final fitting-out prior to heading out. The majority of the LSTs were built by Missourti Valley Bridge & Iron in Evansville Indiana. Another 156 ships were fabricated by Chicago Bridge and Iron in Seneca, Il. A total of 264 LSTs were built in Pittsburgh at the Dravo and American Bridge (later Ambridge) shipyards. At least one of the ships from Dravo steamed back up the Ohio to Pittsburgh during the war to show the people what was being built here, but none had returned since then.
In 2010, the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! (such ships were not given names in US service, only numbers) headed from Evansville to Pittsburgh. Constructed in the Philadelphia Navy Yards in 1942, 325 served in Italy, and Normandy, making more than 40 trips between D-Day and May of ‘45. The ship was decommissioned and placed in reserve after the war, it was placed in service with the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS) in 1951 to as part of the construction of the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! radar stations. Transferred to the Greek Navy in 1964, she served as the RHS Syros (L-144) until 1999. She was acquired by USS LST Memorial Inc in 2000, and restored to her WWII appearance.
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WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI
> user314
05/12/2020 at 12:20 |
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“Wow, that ship is getting really close to shore guys! Wait, now it’s opening, what’s in there? AHHH HOLY SHIT RUN!!
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Very cool pictures, I love the inside photos, they just seem to have more “history” being able to see work benches and tools and things that make it lived in.
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> user314
05/12/2020 at 12:24 |
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user314
> WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI
05/12/2020 at 12:30 |
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Right? It’s like a clown car, of DEATH!
One of the things you can never get from pictures is the smell . Old metal, oil, diesel and BO. You can feel the weight of history in and around places/ships/planes.
OPPOsaurus WRX
> user314
05/12/2020 at 12:33 |
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I wonder why they had to start painting this message on there
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user314
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
05/12/2020 at 12:34 |
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“Hrrrrnnggh Admiral, I’m trying to sneak onto Normandy but I’m dummy thicc and the clap from my stern keeps alerting the Nazis. ”
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> user314
05/12/2020 at 12:36 |
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Note: wikipedia has this:
Editor’s note on my shitpost reply: an LST is a ship (barely)* that does boat-type things. Hence a big boat. The biggest.
*Over 60m OAL (~100m), two full-length decks above the waterline (but not full-width, abbreviated, and one of which is right at the water), and small enough/low enough
vs. engine power it actually lists into turns instead of out of them sometimes. That’s marginal on three popular ship/boat delineations - and it goes ashore.
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> user314
05/12/2020 at 12:37 |
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YES
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> user314
05/12/2020 at 12:47 |
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Further perusal:
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WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI
> user314
05/12/2020 at 12:51 |
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I know that smell well. It’s a good one.
My favorite is the slightly acidic nature of old tool smell.
Just Jeepin'
> user314
05/12/2020 at 12:55 |
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Mmm, that’s what I’m talking about. Looks like it must be a post-war M38.
gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
> user314
05/12/2020 at 13:48 |
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The history channel had a special as she was returning from Greece. With no protruding keel, the oceanic handling is interesting even in somewhat calm seas.
Fat bottomed girl
ttyymmnn
> user314
05/12/2020 at 13:51 |
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In somewhat related news, this turned up in my son’s giant bin of Legos which he currently sorting. I have no idea where it came from, just another one of those relics that turns up in the bucket. It’s the BO-AT of Hee- gins! Actually, it looks a bit like a game piece, but to what, I don’t know.
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user314
> gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
05/12/2020 at 14:19 |
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Wait, the History Channel had real history on? I’m assuming this was in between marathons of Pawn Stars, American Pickers, and Ancient Aliens.
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gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
> user314
05/12/2020 at 14:20 |
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Sorry to give your hopes up this was (Looks at calendar) @18 years ago
415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
> user314
05/12/2020 at 14:21 |
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That’s cool, we have a Liberty Ship in SF/Sausalito, my grandfather was an engineer on one in WWII. I’ve been looking at a lot of Korea/Nam archives trying to find more pictures of the type of truck I have. I have some pics of them hitting the beach out of a later type of landing ship.
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user314
> ttyymmnn
05/12/2020 at 14:26 |
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That’s from a Tente ship set. Hasbro imported them to the US in the late 70's/early 80's, though you can find them on eBay.
The bricks are not compatible with Lego, FWIW.
412GTI
> user314
05/12/2020 at 14:27 |
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Oh man I remember when that was in town! I was just a teenager, so obviously didn’t care as much as I would today, but it was an awesome sight and tour.
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ttyymmnn
> user314
05/12/2020 at 14:29 |
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Interesting. We inherited a giant bin of Lego about 15 years ago from my wife’s former boss. It had lots of castle/knight pieces in it, and it also came along with a lot of relics. We have since grown to three bins, and my son wants to use his free time to sort the Legos and then try to rebuild sets from our past (we have another bin full of instruction books). We found some of those Tente bricks, but did not know where they came from. And now I know! Thanks!
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user314
> gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
05/12/2020 at 14:30 |
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Ah, that’s why. Back in the Before Times.
TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts.
> user314
05/12/2020 at 14:53 |
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I never understood why they didn’t stick 5 inch guns on those bad boys, sail right up onto the beach and just fuck shit up at point blank range. I’m pretty sure those concrete emplacements the germans had would have been turn to dust by a 5inch at close range. Even if they didn’t, the people inside would have had a REALLY, REALLY bad day.
someassemblyrequired
> user314
05/12/2020 at 16:57 |
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LST-510 was converted to a car ferry and still serves on the New London, CT - Orient Point, NY route. She used to winter across the river from the end of my street when I lived in CT :
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gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
> TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts.
05/12/2020 at 21:11 |
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thats what these were for.
because full of men and material they were too high value to be engaging on a contested beach.
Though some were converted into rocket launching pads, because they could get close.
