Navy | The US Navy |
Type | Tank landing ship |
Class | LST (Mk 2) |
Pennant | LST 133 |
Built by | Chicago Bridge and Iron Co. (Seneca, Illinois, U.S.A.) |
Ordered | 15 Oct 1942 |
Laid down | 24 Jun 1943 |
Launched | 2 Nov 1943 |
Commissioned | 29 Nov 1943 |
End service | 29 Aug 1946 |
History | USS LST-133 was used as a target in the Bikini atomic bomb tests in July 1946 and was decommissioned on 29 August that same year. The vessel was eventually scuttled as target ship off Kwajalein on 11 May 1948. Hit by U-boat |
U-boat Attack | See our U-boat attack entry for the USS LST 133 |
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