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Nye County (LST-1067)

1945-1973

A county in the state of Nevada.

(LST-1067: displacement 1,625; length 328'0"; beam 50'0"; draft 11'0"; speed 12.0 knots; complement 266; armament 8 40 millimeter, 12 20 millimeter; class LST-511)

LST-1067 was laid down on 24 January 1945 at Hingham, Mass., by Bethlehem Hingham Shipyard; launched on 27 February 1945; and commissioned on 24 March 1945, Lt. P. H. White in command.

Upon completing shakedown along the Virginia coast, LST-1067 sailed to Davisville, R.I. to load materials of war. Departing on 16 May 1945 she steamed via the Panama Canal first to Pearl Harbor and then, with additional cargo, to Guam arriving 19 July. A second logistic voyage from the Hawaiian Islands to the Marianas occurred in the immediate aftermath of the Japanese surrender. She then embarked occupation forces at Leyte and landed them on Honshu, Japan, on 2 November.

Turning eastward for the long trip to the U.S., LST-1067 arrived at San Francisco on 6 January 1946 and decommissioned at Portland, Oregon, on 13 August 1946.

Named Nye County on 1 July 1955, the landing ship recommissioned "in reserve" on 22 May 1963, and was assigned to the newly created RESLSTRON 2 based at Little Creek, Va. The value of this squadron during the Dominican Republic crisis brought a full commissioning on  21 December 1965 and new duties in the Western Pacific.

Though based at Sasebo, Japan, Nye County spent much time between April 1966-March 1967 offloading supplies at critical points along the central coast of South Vietnam. Ordered to Pusan, Korea, she was decommissioned on 27 March 1967 and was turned over to the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS). Manned largely by a Korean crew, she continued to sail in Far Eastern waters in 1970.

Stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 10 June 1973, Nye County was disposed-of through the Security Assistance Program, in a foreign military sale to the government of Chile.

Updated, Robert J. Cressman

13 May 2022

Published: Fri May 13 14:32:29 EDT 2022