 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| For RATING SHIRTS - Click on your Rating Abbreviation below: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
U.S.S. TALBOT COUNTY
(LST-1153)SHES A LADY
Click to view crew list
USS TALBOT COUNTY (LST-1153 ) - a Talbot County-class tank landing ship
In Commission 1947 to 1970LST-1153 Deployments - Major Events
| Add a LST-1153 Shellback Initiation | Add a LST-1153 Deployment - Major Event | ||||
| Month | Year | to | Month | Year | Deployment / Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JUL | 1945 | - | Keel Date: 19 JUL 1945 at Boston Navy Yard MA | ||
| APR | 1947 | - | Launch Date: 24 APR 1947 | ||
| SEP | 1947 | - | Commissioned: 3 SEP 1947 | ||
| JAN | 1961 | - | JAN | 1964 | Caribbean |
| OCT | 1962 | - | NOV | 1962 | Cuban Missle Blockade |
| FEB | 1965 | - | Shellback Initiation - 7 FEB 1965 - Atlantic Ocean | ||
| FEB | 1966 | - | Shellback Initiation - 18 FEB 1966 - Pacific Ocean | ||
| JAN | 1967 | - | NOV | 1968 | Panama Canal |
| AUG | 1967 | - | JAN | 1968 | A MAJOR REFIT NORFORK SHIPBUILDING AND DRY DOCK CO. 1967 RADAR |
| JUN | 1968 | - | NOV | 1968 | Panama Canal |
| APR | 1970 | - | Decommissioned: 3 APR 1970 | ||
LST-1153 General Specifications
Class: Talbot County-class tank landing ship
Complement: 190 Officers and Enlisted
Displacement: 6000 tons
Length: 382 feet
Beam: 54 feet
Draft: 14 feet 5 in
Final Disposition: Sold for scrapping
USS TALBOT COUNTY (LST-1153)
LST-1153
was laid down on 19 July 1945 at Boston
Mass.
by the Boston
Navy Yard
launched on 24 April 1947
sponsored by Mrs. Lena Mickelson
and commissioned on 3 September 1947.
LST-1153 reported to the Fleet Training Group at Norfolk to begin
her shakedown cruise on 21 September. She returned to Boston on 24 October
for a postshakedown yard period and put to sea again on 15 November. Eleven
days later
she arrived at her home port
Little Creek
Va. For the next
nine years
the tank landing ship operated along the east coast of the United
States from New England to Florida and in the Caribbean. On 1 July 1956
LST-1153 was named Talbot County.
Talbot County deployed to the Mediterranean on 31 August 1959
using
her bulk fuel tanks to carry more than 240
000 gallons of aviation gasoline
to refuel the helicopters of the amphibious squadron attached to the 6th
Fleet. After making port calls in France
Italy
Greece
Malta
Gibraltar
Algeria
and Morocco she returned to tie United States on 13 February 1958.
The ship was deployed with the 6th Fleet again from April to August 1959
and from October 1960 to May 1961. The remainder of her time
until 1970
was spent in operations along the Atlantic seaboard
ranging from Key West
Fla.
to Nova Scotia and various ports in the Caribbean.
Talbot County was decommissioned at Orange
Tex.
on 3 April 1970
struck from the Navy list on 1 May 1973
and subsequently scrapped.
[Note: The above USS TALBOT COUNTY (LST-1153) history may or may not contain text provided by crew members of the USS TALBOT COUNTY (LST-1153) or by other non-crew members and text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]