USS Raritan (LSM-540)
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| Career | Missing image USN-Jack.png United States Navy Jack |
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| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | 10 May 1945 |
| Launched: | August 1945 |
| Commissioned: | 6 December 1945 |
| Decommissioned: | 1 December 1959 |
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| Struck: | 1 January 1960 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 520 tons (light), 743 tons (landing) 1,095 tons (fully loaded) |
| Length: | 203.5 ft ( m) |
| Beam: | 34.5 ft ( m) |
| Draft: | 3.5 ft forward, 7.7 ft aft (light), 6.3 ft forward, 8.3 ft aft (fully loaded) |
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| Speed: | 13.2 knots |
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| Complement: | 4 officers, 54 enlisted men |
| Armament: | 1 40mm gun, 4 x 20mm guns |
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The third USS Raritan (LSM-540) was a landing ship medium in the United States Navy following World War II. She was named for a river in New Jersey.
Raritan was laid down 10 May 1945 at Brown Shipbuilding Corporation, Houston, Texas, launched August 1945, commissioned as USS LSM-540 6 December 1945, LT. Roy T. Rector, USNR in command. She was decommissioned 29 May 1946, at Green Cove Springs, Florida and laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Florida Group, Green Cove Springs.
Recommissioned 4 November 1957, she was renamed USS Raritan (LSM-540) 14 October 1959, then decommissioned 1 December 1959 at Norfolk, Virginia and struck from the Naval Vessel Register 1 January 1960.
See USS Raritan for other ships of this name.
This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
External links
Photos (http://www.navsource.org/archives/10/14540.htm)