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NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive

Contributed by Mike Smolinski

USS Cheboygan (LST-533)
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USS LST-533 (1944 - 1955)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Echo - Alpha - November
NEAN

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal - National Defense Service Medal

LST-491 Class Tank Landing Ship:

Laid down, 29 September 1943 at Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co., Evansville, IN.

Launched, 1 December 1943

Commissioned USS LST-533, 27 January 1944, LT. C. E. Hanks in command

During World War II, USS LST-533 was assigned to the Europe-Africa-Middle East Theater and participated in the following campaign:

**European-Africa-Middle East Campaign**
Campaign and Dates
Invasion of Normandy, June 1944

Named USS Cheboygan County (LST-533), 1 July 1955

Decommissioned, 1 December 1955

Recommissioned, 18 November 1961

Decommissioned , May 1969

Struck from the Naval Register, 15 September 1974

Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 1 December 1975 by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS)

USS LST-533 earned one battle star for World War II service

Specifications: (as reported by Office of Naval Intelligence-1945)
Displacement 1,625 t.(lt), 4,080 t.(fl) (sea-going draft w/1675 ton load)
Length 328' o.a.
Beam 50'
Draft

(light) - 2' 4" fwd, 7' 6" aft

(sea-going) 8' 3" fwd, 14' 1" aft

(landing) 3' 11" fwd, 9' 10" aft (landing w/500 ton load)
Speed 12 kts. (maximum)
Endurance 24,000 miles @ 9kts. while displacing 3960 tons
Complement

7 officers, 104 enlisted
Troop Accommodations

16 officers, 147 enlisted
Boats 2 LCVP
Cargo Capacity (varied with mission - payloads between 1600 and 1900 tons)

Typical loads

One Landing Craft Tank (LCT), tanks, wheeled and tracked vehicles, artillery, construction equipment and military supplies. A ramp or elevator forward allowed vehicles access to tank deck from main deck

Additional capacity included sectional pontoons carried on each side of vessel amidships, to either build Rhino Barges or use as causeways. Married to the bow ramp, the causeways would enabled payloads to be delivered ashore from deeper water or where a beachhead would not allow the vessel to be grounded forward after ballasting
Armament (varied with availability when each vessel was outfitted. Retro-fitting was accomplished throughout WWII. The ultimate armament design for United States vessels was

2 - Twin 40MM gun mounts w/Mk. 51 directors

4 - Single 40MM gun mounts

12 single 20MM gun mounts
Propulsion two General Motors 12-567, 900hp diesel engines, two shafts, twin rudders

Size	Image Description	Source
69k	USS LST-533 beached at Normandy during the invasion, June 1944.	Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
145k	Landing ships putting cargo ashore on one of the invasion beaches, at low tide during the first days of the operation, June 1944. Among identifiable ships present are USS LST-532 (in the center of the view); USS LST-262 (third LST from right); USS LST-310 (second LST from right); USS LST-533 (partially visible at far right); and USS LST-524. Note: Barrage balloons overhead and Army "half-track" convoy forming up on the beach. US Coast Guard photo # 26-G-2517 from the US Coast Guard collection in the US National Archives.	US Naval Historical Center and Arthur DeLorenzo MOMM 3/c USS LST 262
319k	USS LST-533 underway, 29 April 1954, location unknown.	John W. Klar
219k	USS Cheboygan County (LST-533) beached during a training invasion near Ft. Pierce, FL in November 1962.	Bill Gonyo
19k	*USS Cheboygan County* (LST-533)** underway, location unknown, circa 1968.	Photo by Michael Rougier
72k	*USS Cheboygan County* (LST-533)** underway, date and location unknown.	LST Home Port web site
82k	*USS Cheboygan County* (LST-533), USS Walworth County (LST-1164)**, a Fletcher Class Destroyer and an MSTS Range Tracking ship moored at Rodman Naval Station, Panama Canal Zone, circa mid-1960s.	Bill Cole