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NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive

LST-1048 Morgan County

LST-511 Class Tank Landing Ship: Laid down, 7 January 1945, at Dravo Yards, Neville Island, Pittsburgh PA; Launched, 17 February 1945; Placed in reduced commission as USS LST-1048, 15 March 1945 for transit to her fitting out yard at New Orleans; Commissioned in full, 28 March 1945 at New Orleans LA; Decommissioned, 14 May 1946, in Japan; Struck from the Naval Register; Custody transferred to US Army; Reacquired by the US Navy , reinstated in the Naval Register, and recommissioned, 26 August 1950; Renamed USS Morgan County (LST-1048), 1 July 1955; Decommissioned, 10 May 1956; Placed in service with MSTS, redesignated USNS Morgan County (T-LST-1048); Placed out of service, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, 1 August 1959; Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 10 June 1960, to Ships Inc. Morgan County received three battle stars for Korean service.

Specifications: Displacement 1,625 t.(fl), 3,640 t.(fl); Length 328'; Beam 50'; Draft unloaded, bow 2' 4" stern 7' 6", loaded bow 8' 2" stern 14' 1"; Speed 12k.; Complement 8-10 Officers, 89-100 Enlisted; Troop Capacity, approx. 130 officers and enlisted; Boats, 2 LCVP; Armament; one single 3"/50 gun mount., eight 40mm guns, twelve 20mm guns; Propulsion, 2 General Motors 12-567 Diesel engines, two shafts, twin rudders.

Size	Image Description	Contributed By
49k	*LST-1048, beached at Tinian, circa September 1945. Photographed by John R. Huggard. US Navy photo # NH 93823*, courtesy of John R. Huggard, 1982.	US Naval Historical Center
101k	*LST-1048* launching LVT amphibious tractors during landing operations in Wonsan Harbor, North Korea, 26 October 1950. Note transport shipping anchored in the distance. US Navy photo # 80-G-422073, now in the collections of the US National Archives	US Naval Historical Center
154k	*LST-1048* underway at sea, circa 1951-55. US Navy photo # NH 96907. from the collections of the Naval Historical Center	US Naval Historical Center
138k	*LST-1048* underway at sea, circa 1951-55. US Navy photo # NH 96906. from the collections of the Naval Historical Center	US Naval Historical Center
45k	*LST-1048*, off San Diego, CA., circa April 1951.	Joseph N. Mansberger ET2 LST-1048, 1950-1953
131k	*LST-1048, off Korea, circa spring 1951, with a deck load of POW's when the authorities broke up the Koji Do prison into smaller groups. LST-1048* hauled out the first load of 2000 prisoners. This view shows about 700 Officers from PRK and PRC on the main deck of the ship. They had to be tear gased to get them out of the POW camp and the there was a lingering odor of tear gas all day. The crew was forced to eat chow on the fan tail in the open because of it.	Joseph N. Mansberger ET2 LST-1048, 1950-1953
27k	*LST-1048, with a deck load of trucks bound for a small beach up the west coast of Korea. There were 19 General Sherman tanks in the tank deck, LST-1048* and three other LSTs put them ashore about 50 miles behind the lines, circa spring 1951.	Joseph N. Mansberger ET2 LST-1048, 1950-1953
32k	*LST-1048*, nested with another LST, probably at Sasebo, Japan, date unknown.	Joseph N. Mansberger ET2 LST-1048, 1950-1953
34k	*LST-1048*, looking forward from the boat deck at Inchon Korea, circa February 1951. Any "T" sailor who was there will remember the big house on the hill with the shell hole in the side.	Joseph N. Mansberger ET2 LST-1048, 1950-1953
73k	*LST-1048*, beached at a ROK navy base at the southern tip of Korea. ROK saliors are unloading ammo loaded in Japan, circa summer 1952.	Joseph N. Mansberger ET2 LST-1048, 1950-1953
157k	*LST-1048*, crew photo, Pearl Harbor, 6 December 1951.	Joseph N. Mansberger ET2 LST-1048, 950-1953