USS LST-325

LST-325 (left) and USS LST-388 unloading while stranded at low tide during the invasion of Normandy in June 1944. Note: propellers, rudders and other underwater details of these LSTs, 40 mm single guns, and "Danforth" style kedge anchor at the stern.
History
United States
Name:	LST-325
Builder:	Philadelphia Navy Yard
Laid down:	10 August 1942
Launched:	27 October 1942
Commissioned:	1 February 1943
Decommissioned:	2 July 1946
Struck:	1 September 1961
Honours and awards:	2 battle stars (WWII)
Fate:	Transferred to Greece 1964
Greece
Name:	RHS Syros (L-144)
Acquired:	1 September 1964
Decommissioned:	1999
Reclassified:	T-LST (1951)
Fate:	Sold, 2000
United States
Name:	M/V LST-325
Renamed:	USS LST-325 (2004)
Status:	Operational museum ship at Evansville, Indiana
General characteristics
Class and type:	LST-1-class tank landing ship
Displacement:	1,625 long tons (1,651 t) light 4,080 long tons (4,145 t) full (sea-going draft with 1675 ton load)
Length:	327 ft 9 in (99.90 m)
Beam:	50 ft (15 m)
Draft:	Light: 2 ft 4 in (0.71 m) forward 7 ft 6 in (2.29 m) aft Sea-going: 8 ft 3 in (2.51 m) forward 14 ft 1 in (4.29 m) aft Landing (with 500 ton load): 3 ft 11 in (1.19 m) forward 9 ft 10 in (3.00 m) aft
Propulsion:	2 General Motors 12-567 900 hp (671 kW) diesel engines, two shafts, twin rudders
Speed:	12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Range:	24,000 nmi (44,000 km) at 9 kn (17 km/h; 10 mph)
Boats & landing craft carried:	2 × LCVPs
Complement:	7 officers, 104 enlisted
Armament:	2 × twin 40 mm gun mounts 4 × single 40 mm gun mounts 12 × single 20 mm gun mounts
USS LST 325
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
At 2006 Tall Stacks Festival in Cincinnati, OH
Location	840 LST Drive Evansville, Indiana
Coordinates	37°57′11″N 87°34′37″W / 37.95306°N 87.57694°W / 37.95306; -87.57694Coordinates: 37°57′11″N 87°34′37″W / 37.95306°N 87.57694°W / 37.95306; -87.57694
NRHP Reference #	09000434
Added to NRHP	24 June 2009

USS LST-325 is a decommissioned tank landing ship of the United States Navy, now docked in Evansville, Indiana. Like many of her class, she was not named and is properly referred to by her hull designation (LSTs in service after July 1955 were named after U.S. counties and parishes).

The ship was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 2009. The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on 24 June 2009 and the listing was announced as the featured listing in the National Park Service's weekly list of 2 July 2009.

LST-325 was launched on 27 October 1942, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The ship operated in the North Africa area and participated in the invasions at Gela, Sicily and Salerno, Italy. On 6 June 1944, LST-325 was part of the largest armada in history by participating in the Normandy Landings at Omaha Beach. She carried 59 vehicles, 31 officers and a total of 408 enlisted men on that first trip. On her first trip back to England from France, LST-325 hauled 38 casualties back to a friendly port. Over the next nine months, Navy records show LST-325 made more than 40 trips back and forth across the English Channel, carrying thousands of men and pieces of equipment needed by troops to successfully complete the liberation of Europe. The ship continued to run supply trips between England and France before returning to the United States in March 1945. LST-325 was decommissioned on 2 July 1946, at Green Cove Springs, Florida, and laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet.