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LST-1098 / ARST-1 Laysan Island

Laysan Island Class Salvage Craft Tender: Laid down, 6 December 1944, as LST-1098 at Jeffersonville Bridge and Machine Co., Jeffersonville, IN.; Redesignated a Salvage Craft Tender, 8 December 1944; named Laysan Island, 23 December 1944; Launched, 27 January 1945; Commissioned, USS Laysan Island (ARST-1), 5 June 1945 at New Orleans, LA; Decommissioned, 21 April 1947 at San Diego, CA.; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 June 1973; Final disposition, sold for scrapping, 1 January 1994 by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service.

Specifications: Displacement 4,100 t.; Length 328'; Beam 50'; Draft 11' 2"; Speed 11.6kts; Complement 289; Armament eight 40mm guns, twelve 20mm guns; Boats, two LCVPs; ; Propulsion, two General Motors 12-567 diesel engines, two shafts, twin rudders.

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