Allied Warships

Tank landing ships


The LST (Mk 2) class tank landing ship USS LST 359 (LST 359) of the US Navy. She was lost on 20 Dec 1944.

All Tank landing ship classes

The list is divided by navy, then ordered by commissioned date of each class (oldest first).

Commissioned

Royal Navy

 Bachaquero (2)1941 - 1941
 Tasajera (1)1941 - 1941
 LST (Mk 1) (3)1943 - 1943

US Navy

 LST (Mk 2) (926)1942 - 1945

4 ship classes.


Please note that we list the classes by navies that initiated/owned the class. Often vessels of certain classes were then built for other nations (or lent), those ships are not visible here but only through the navies pages or by looking into each class.

War losses: Tank landing ships


 DateVesselClass

1943

Royal Navy3 Jul 1943HMS LST 429 (LST 429)LST (Mk 2) 
US Navy6 Jul 1943USS LST 333 (LST 333)LST (Mk 2) 
US Navy10 Jul 1943USS LST 313 (LST 313)LST (Mk 2) 
US Navy11 Jul 1943USS LST 158 (LST 158)LST (Mk 2) 
US Navy18 Jul 1943USS LST 342 (LST 342)LST (Mk 2) 
US Navy10 Aug 1943USS LST 318 (LST 318)LST (Mk 2) 
Royal Navy15 Aug 1943HMS LST 414 (LST 414)LST (Mk 2) 
US Navy18 Aug 1943USS LST 396 (LST 396)LST (Mk 2) 
US Navy25 Sep 1943USS LST 167 (LST 167)LST (Mk 2) 
Royal Navy30 Sep 1943HMS LST 79 (LST 79)LST (Mk 2) 
US Navy1 Oct 1943USS LST 203 (LST 203)LST (Mk 2) 
US Navy5 Oct 1943USS LST 448 (LST 448)LST (Mk 2) 

1944

US Navy19 Jan 1944USS LST 228 (LST 228)LST (Mk 2) 
Royal Navy26 Jan 1944HMS LST 411 (LST 411)LST (Mk 2) 
Royal Navy26 Jan 1944HMS LST 422 (LST 422)LST (Mk 2) 
Royal Navy16 Feb 1944HMS LST 418 (LST 418)LST (Mk 2) 
Royal Navy20 Feb 1944HMS LST 305 (LST 305)LST (Mk 2) 
US Navy20 Feb 1944USS LST 348 (LST 348)LST (Mk 2) 
US Navy26 Feb 1944USS LST 349 (LST 349)LST (Mk 2) 
Royal Navy2 Mar 1944HMS LST 362 (LST 362)LST (Mk 2) 
Royal Navy24 Apr 1944HMS LST 407 (LST 407)LST (Mk 2) 
US Navy28 Apr 1944USS LST 507 (LST 507)LST (Mk 2) 
US Navy28 Apr 1944USS LST 531 (LST 531)LST (Mk 2) 
US Navy21 May 1944USS LST 179 (LST 179)LST (Mk 2) 
US Navy21 May 1944USS LST 353 (LST 353)LST (Mk 2) 
US Navy21 May 1944USS LST 39 (LST 39)LST (Mk 2) 
US Navy21 May 1944USS LST 43 (LST 43)LST (Mk 2) 
US Navy21 May 1944USS LST 480 (LST 480)LST (Mk 2) 
US Navy21 May 1944USS LST 69 (LST 69)LST (Mk 2) 
US Navy8 Jun 1944USS LST 499 (LST 499)LST (Mk 2) 
US Navy9 Jun 1944USS LST 314 (LST 314)LST (Mk 2) 
US Navy9 Jun 1944USS LST 376 (LST 376)LST (Mk 2) 
US Navy11 Jun 1944USS LST 496 (LST 496)LST (Mk 2) 
US Navy19 Jun 1944USS LST 523 (LST 523)LST (Mk 2) 
Royal Navy7 Jul 1944HMS LST 216 (LST 216)LST (Mk 2) 
US Navy14 Aug 1944USS LST 921 (LST 921)LST (Mk 2) 
Royal Navy15 Aug 1944HMS LST 404 (LST 404)LST (Mk 2) 
US Navy15 Aug 1944USS LST 282 (LST 282)LST (Mk 2) 
Royal Navy7 Nov 1944HMS LST 420 (LST 420)LST (Mk 2) 
US Navy17 Nov 1944USS LST 6 (LST 6)LST (Mk 2) 
US Navy15 Dec 1944USS LST 472 (LST 472)LST (Mk 2) 
US Navy15 Dec 1944USS LST 738 (LST 738)LST (Mk 2) 
US Navy20 Dec 1944USS LST 359 (LST 359)LST (Mk 2) 
US Navy21 Dec 1944USS LST 460 (LST 460)LST (Mk 2) 
US Navy21 Dec 1944USS LST 749 (LST 749)LST (Mk 2) 
US Navy28 Dec 1944USS LST 750 (LST 750)LST (Mk 2) 

1945

Royal Navy16 Jan 1945HMS LST 415 (LST 415)LST (Mk 2) 
US Navy9 Feb 1945USS LST 563 (LST 563)LST (Mk 2) 
US Navy11 Feb 1945USS LST 577 (LST 577)LST (Mk 2) 
Royal Navy22 Feb 1945HMS LST 364 (LST 364)LST (Mk 2) 
Royal Navy20 Mar 1945HMS LST 80 (LST 80)LST (Mk 2) 
US Navy1 Apr 1945USS LST 884 (LST 884)LST (Mk 2) 
US Navy4 Apr 1945USS LST 675 (LST 675)LST (Mk 2) 
US Navy7 Apr 1945USS LST 447 (LST 447)LST (Mk 2) 
US Navy12 Apr 1945USS LST 493 (LST 493)LST (Mk 2) 
US Navy20 May 1945USS LST 808 (LST 808)LST (Mk 2) 

56 Tank landing ships lost. See all Allied Warship losses.

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