USS Dodge County
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USS Dodge County (LST-722) was an LST-542 class Landing Ship Tank, built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was renamed USS Dodge County on the first of July 1955, for counties in Georgia, Minnesota, Nebraska, and Wisconsin, and was the only United States Navy vessel to bear the name.
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Dodge County arrives at Savannah, Georgia to off-load 1st Armored Division troops during the Cuban Missile Crisis in November–December 1962. (Photo taken from Duval County.) | |
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United States | |
Name | USS LST-722 |
Builder | Jeffersonville Boat & Machinery Co., Jeffersonville, Indiana |
Laid down | 15 July 1944 |
Launched | 21 August 1944 |
Commissioned | 13 September 1944 |
Decommissioned | 13 July 1946 |
Recommissioned | 16 November 1951 |
Decommissioned | 3 January 1956 |
Renamed | USS Dodge County (LST-722), 1 July 1955 |
Recommissioned | 1961 |
Decommissioned | October 1969 |
Stricken | 15 September 1974 |
Honours and awards | 1 battle star (World War II) |
Fate | Sold to Royal Thai Navy, 1 November 1975 |
Thailand | |
Name | HTMS Prathong |
Namesake | Phra Thong Island |
Acquired | 1 November 1975 |
Decommissioned | 2009 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | LST-542-class tank landing ship |
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Length | 328 ft (100 m) |
Beam | 50 ft (15 m) |
Draft |
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Propulsion | 2 × General Motors 12-567 diesel engines, two shafts, twin rudders |
Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
Boats & landing craft carried | 2 LCVPs |
Troops | Approximately 130 officers and enlisted men |
Complement | 8–10 officers, 89–100 enlisted men |
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LST-722 was laid down on the fifteenth of July 1944, at Jeffersonville, Indiana, by the Jeffersonville Boat and Machine Company. She was launched on August twenty-first, 1944, and sponsored by miss Rosemary Furey, before being commissioned on the thirteenth of September 1944.