USS Saint Croix River
USS Saint Croix River (LSM(R)-524) was a rocket-equipped Landing Ship of the United States Navy during World War II.Despite earning the American and World War II campaign decorations, Saint Croix River never saw action nor traveled further than Chesapeake Bay or the Gulf Coast of the United States, and was sold in 1961, with its subsequent fate unknown to the US Navy.Construction took a mere four weeks, and she was launched on 9 June along with her 143-man crew recently arrived from the training courses in Little Creek, Norfolk, Virginia.[1][2] She then sailed to Florida, practicing live fire exercises of her all weapons en route to joining the Atlantic Reserve Fleet.LSM(R) type ships: 525, 527, 526, and 519, moored to our port numbering from inboard to outboard, on the following bearing: bridge opening 180 .5 (T), signal tower 235 (T), pt.
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