>From the "Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships," 

(1969) Vol. 4, p.429





MONTGOMERY COUNTY





	Counties in 18 states of the United States.





LST-1041

Displacement:  1,625 t.

Length:  328'

Beam:  50'

Draft:  14'1"

Speed:  12 k.

Complement:  226

Armament:  8 40mm; 12 20mm

Class:  LST-511



	LST-1041 was laid down by Dravo Corp., Neville Island, 

Pa., 12 November 1944; launched 20 January 1945; sponsored 

by Mrs. N. L. Gibson; ferried down the Ohio and Mississippi 

Rivers to New Orleans; and commissioned 19 February 1945.



	Following shakedown along the gulf coast, LST-1041 

loaded cargo and sailed for duty in the Pacific in early 

April.  Steaming via the Panama Canal and Pearl Harbor, she 

reached Eniwetok, Marshalls, 5 June and began cargo shuttle 

missions to American bases in the mid- and western Pacific.  

Operating with LST Group 97, she sailed later in the month 

via Guam and Saipan to Okinawa where she unloaded military 

supplies in mid-July.  Later that month she returned to the 

Marshalls and was anchored at Eniwetok when the Japanese 

agreed to cease hostilities.



	LST-1041 thence returned to the western Pacific and 

from 2 to 24 September she supported occupation operations 

in Japan.  After occupation duty, she sailed for the United 

States and arrived Norfolk, Va., 6 December.  During the 

next decade this LST maintained a busy pattern of logistics, 

support, and amphibious training operation.  She took part 

in numerous Atlantic Fleet and type-training exercises.  

Training and readiness operations sent her from the east 

coast to the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico.



	In addition, LST-1041 took part in providing valuable 

support of operations off Greenland and in Baffin Bay.  She 

carried out three logistics runs; and, during her third 

mission from September to November 1953, she assisted in 

salvaging SS ATLANTIC WATERS after the merchant ship 

grounded in the approaches to Goose Bay, Labrador.  In 

September 1955, she deployed to the Mediterranean for duty 

with the 6th Fleet.  During the next months she ranged the 

Mediterranean from Greece to southern France.  Thence, she 

resumed training duty out of Norfolk in February 1955.



	Named MONTGOMERY COUNTY 1 July 1955, the LST continued 

duty with the Atlantic Fleet Amphibious Force until 31 

January 1956 when she decommissioned at Green Cove Springs, 

Fla.  Assigned to the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, she remained 

in her Florida berthing area until mid-1960.  Her name was 

struck from the Navy list 1 June 1960.  In August 1961 she 

was sold under terms of the Military Assistance Program to 

the West German Federal Republic.  Scheduled for conversion 

to battle damage repair ship, the conversion was never 

undertaken and she was scrapped in 1968 without having seen 

any commissioned service in the German Navy.





Transcribed by Michael Hansen

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