Raritan

 

A river in New Jersey

 

III

 

(LSM - 540: displacement 1,095 (full load); length 203’6”; beam 34’6”; draft 8’4”; speed 12 knots; complement 59; armament 2 40mm., 8 20mm.; class LSM-1)

 

The third Raritan was laid down 10 May 1945 as LSM-540 by Brown Shipbuilding Co., Houston, Tex.; launched in August 1945, and commissioned on 6 December 1945.

 

LSM-540 was placed out of commission in March 1946, and berthed at Green Cove Springs, Fla., as a unit of the Atlantic Reserve Fleet. Recommissioned in August 1957, she was homeported at Miami, Fla. She was named Raritan 14 October 1959, but was decommissioned at Norfolk 1 December 1959 and was struck from the Navy list 1 January 1960.