![]() USS LSM-20 sinking on 5 December 1944
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| History |
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 United States |
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| Name | USS LSM-20 |
| Ordered | 15 September 1943 |
| Builder | Brown Shipbuilding Co., Houston, Texas |
| Laid down | 24 April 1944 |
| Launched | 14 May 1944 |
| Commissioned | 16 June 1944 |
| Stricken | 20 January 1945 |
Honors and
awards | 1 battle star |
| Fate | Sunk 5 December 1944 |
| General characteristics |
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| Class and type | LSM-1-class landing ship medium |
| Displacement |
- 520 long tons (530 t) (light)
- 743 long tons (755 t) (landing)
- 1,095 long tons (1,113 t) (fully loaded)
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| Length | 203 ft 6 in (62.03 m) |
| Beam | 34 ft 6 in (10.52 m) |
| Draft |
- light, 3 ft 6 in (1.07 m) forward, 7 ft 8 in (2.34 m) aft
- fully loaded, 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) forward, 8 ft 3 in (2.51 m) aft
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| Speed | 13.2 knots (24.4 km/h; 15.2 mph) max. |
USS LSM-20 was a LSM-1-class landing ship medium of the United States Navy, commissioned at Brown Shipyards in Houston, Texas, on 16 June 1944.[1] During WWII, she operated in the Pacific. On 5 December 1944, the vessel sunk after she was hit by a Japanese kamikaze in the Surigao Strait in the Philippines. Five sailors were killed and another nine were wounded.[2]
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