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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Dukes County (LST-735), 1944-1957.
Originally named LST-735.

USS LST-735, a 2366-ton LST-511 class tank landing ship, was built at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Commissioned in April 1944, her wartime service was performed in the Pacific, where she participated in operations to capture the Marianas, Luzon and Okinawa. She decommissioned in March 1946.

LST-735 recommissioned in November 1950. In July 1951, she became a support ship for minesweepers. In this role, she made a Korean War deployment in 1952-53 and had additional Western Pacific tours in 1953-54 and 1955-56. Renamed Dukes County (LST-735) in July 1955, she was leased to the Republic of China Navy in May 1957 and sold to that service in 1974. She has been part of the ROC Navy ever since, originally under the name Chung Hai and later as Kao Hsiung.

This page features our only view of USS LST-735 (later renamed Dukes County).

If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

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Photo #: NH 68589

USS LST-735
(at right)

Serving as "mother ship" for seven minesweepers, probably in a Japanese port, circa 1952-54.
Ships nested alongside are (from left):
USS Gull (AMS-16);
USS Firecrest (AMS-10);
USS Condor (AMS-5);
USS Merganser (AMS-26);
USS Osprey (AMS-28);
USS Competent (AM-316) and
USS Chief (AM-315).

Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Institute, James C. Fahey Collection.

Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 83KB; 740 x 605 pixels

 


In addition to the image presented above, the National Archives appears to hold at least a few other views of USS LST-735. The following list features these images.

The images listed below are NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections.
DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".



  • Photo #: USN 1045645
    USS LST-735 underway prior to 1955, with a helicopter landing area painted on her deck.
    Port bow aerial view. This photograph was received in December 1959.

  • Photo #: USN 1045671
    USS LST-735 underway, circa the early 1950s, with cargo stowed on her deck.
    Port bow aerial view. This photograph was received in December 1959.

  • Photo #: USN 1078474
    USS LST-735 in harbor, May 1954.
    Starboard bow surface view.


    Reproductions of these images should be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system for pictures not held by the Naval Historical Center.

    The images listed in this box are NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections. DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".


  • If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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    6 September 1999