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U.S.S. NYE COUNTY

(LST-1067)


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USS NYE COUNTY (LST-1067 ) - a LST-542-class tank landing ship

In Commission 1945 to 1946

LST-1067 Deployments - Major Events

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Month Year to Month Year Deployment / Event
JAN1945-Keel Date: 24 JAN 1945
FEB1945-Launch Date: 27 FEB 1945
MAR1945-Commissioned: 24 MAR 1945
JAN1965-JAN1967West Pac-Viet Nam
JAN1965-JAN1966West Pac
DEC1965-DEC1965Recommisioned
MAR1967-Decommissioned: 27 MAR 1967

LST-1067 General Specifications

Class: LST-542-class tank landing ship

Complement: 7 Officers and 204 Enlisted

Displacement: 1490 tons

Length: 328 feet

Beam: 50 feet

Draft: 8 feet

Final Disposition: Transferred to Chile August 1973



USS NYE COUNTY (LST-1067)



Nye County (LST-1067) was laid down at Bethlehem Hingham Shipyard Hingham Mass. 24 January 1945. Launched 27 February 1945 and commissioned as LST-1067 24 March 1945 Lt. P. H. White in command.

Upon completing shakedown along the Virginia coast LST-1067 sailed to Davisville R.I. to load materials of war. Departing 16 May 1945 she steamed via the Panama Canal first to Pearl Harbor and then with additional cargo to Guam arriving 19 July. A second logistic voyage from the Hawaiian Islands to the Marianas occurred in the immediate aftermath of the Japanese surrender. She then embarked occupation forces at Leyte and landed them on Honshu Japan 2 November.

Turning eastward for the long trip to the States LST-1067 arrived San Francisco 6 January 1946 and decommissioned at Portland Oreg. 13 August 1946.

Named Nye County 1 July 1955 the landing ship recommissioned "in reserve" 22 May 1963 and was assigned to the newly created RESLSTRON 2 based at Little Creek Va. The value of this squadron during the Dominican Republic crisis brought a full commissioning 21 December 1965 and new duties in the Western Pacific.

Though based at Sasebo Japan Nye County spent much time between April 1966-March 1967 offloading supplies at critical points along the central coast of South Vietnam. Ordered to Pusan Korea she decoinmissioned 27 March 1967 and was turned over to the Military Sea Transportation Service. Manned largely by a Korean crew she continues to sail in Far Eastern waters in 1970.

[Note: The above USS NYE COUNTY (LST-1067) history may or may not contain text provided by crew members of the USS NYE COUNTY (LST-1067) or by other non-crew members and text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]