USS LST-291

USS LST-291 was a LST-1-class tank landing ship built for the United States Navy during World War II by the American Bridge Company in Ambridge, Pennsylvania.

LST-291 was laid down on 25 September 1943 and launched 14 November 1943. During World War II, the LST-291 was assigned to the Europe-Africa-Middle East Theater, and participated in the Invasion of Normandy in June 1944.^[1]

In 1954, she ran aground on a coral reef off James Point, Eleuthera in the Bahamas. After 11 days of salvage operations which involved blasting a 1,000 foot channel through the reef, she was freed from the reef and towed back to the drydock at Jacksonville, Florida.^[2] The damage she sustained was too extensive, however, and LST-291 was decommissioned, struck from the Naval Register on 19 May 1954, and sunk as a target in July 1954.

LST-291 earned one battle star for World War II service.

• Public Domain This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships . The entry can be found here.
• Photo gallery of USS LST-291 at NavSource Naval History

• "USS LST-291". Project Eleuthera. Retrieved 7 April 2010.

• World War II amphibious warfare vessels of the United States
• Ships built in Ambridge, Pennsylvania
• 1943 ships
• LST-1-class tank landing ships of the United States Navy

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