USS LST-30

	File:USS LST-30 San Francisco Bay 1945-1946.jpg USS LST-30 in San Francisco Bay, c. 1945-1946.
History
United States
Name:	LST-30
Builder:	Dravo Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Laid down:	12 January 1943
Launched:	3 May 1943
Sponsored by:	Mrs. C. B. Jansen
Commissioned:	3 July 1943
Decommissioned:	6 March 1946
Struck:	8 May 1946
Identification:	Hull symbol: LST-30; Code letters: NVCG; ;
Honors and; awards:	1 × battle star
Fate:	Sold for merchant service, 2 April 1946
Status:	Fate unknown
General characteristics
Type:	LST-1-class tank landing ship
Displacement:	Template:LST-1 class tank landing ship displacement
Length:	Template:LST-1 class tank landing ship length
Beam:	Template:LST-1 class tank landing ship beam
Draft:	Template:LST-1 class tank landing ship draft
Installed power:	Template:LST-1 class tank landing ship power
Propulsion:	Template:LST-1 class tank landing ship propulsion
Speed:	Template:LST-1 class tank landing ship speed
Range:	Template:LST-1 class tank landing ship range
Boats & landing; craft carried:	Template:LST-1 class tank landing ship boats
Capacity:	Template:LST-1 class tank landing ship capacity
Troops:	16 officers, 147 enlisted men
Complement:	13 officers, 104 enlisted men
Armament:	Template:LST-1 class tank landing ship armament
Service record
Operations:	Invasion of Normandy (6–25 June 1944)
Awards:	American Campaign Medal; European–African–Middle Eastern Campaign Medal; World War II Victory Medal;

USS LST-30 was a United States Navy LST-1-class tank landing ship used exclusively in the Europe-Africa-Middle East Theater during World War II. Like many of her class, she was not named and is properly referred to by her hull designation.

Construction

LST-30 was laid down on 12 January 1943, at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, by the Dravo Corporation; launched on 3 May 1943; sponsored by Mrs. C. B. Jansen;^[2] and commissioned on 10 July 1943, with Lieutenant William W. Ennis, USNR, in command.^[1]

Records indicate LST-30 traveled from Halifax, Nova Scotia, in Convoy SC 144 on 11 October 1943, arriving in Liverpool, England, on 27 October 1943.^[3]

She participated in the Normandy invasion, June 1944.^[2]

She departed Liverpool, on 11 May 1945, with Convoy ONS 50 arriving in Halifax, on 29 May 1945.^[4]

LST-30 was decommissioned on 6 March 1946, and was struck from the Navy list on 8 May 1946. On 2 April 1946, she was sold to the W. Horace Williams Company, of New Orleans, Louisiana.^[2]

LST-30 earned one battle star for her World War II service.^[2]

Online resources

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