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USS LSM-478
LSM-1-class landing ship medium From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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USS LSM-478 was a LSM-1-class landing ship medium in the United States Navy during World War II. The ship was transferred to France as L9016 and Taiwan as ROCS Mei Kun (LSM-252).
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Construction and career
LSM-478 was laid down on 10 February 1945 at Brown Shipbuilding Co., Houston, Texas. Launched on 3 March 1945 and commissioned on 7 April 1945.
During World War II, LSM-478 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific theater. She was assigned to occupation service in the Far East from 4 September to 9 November 1945.[1]
LSM-478 was decommissioned on 28 May 1946.[2]
She was loaned to the French on 1 April 1954.[3]
She was struck from the Navy Register.
The ship was commissioned into the French Navy on 28 June 1954 and renamed L9016.[3][1] She served in the First Indochina War later that year.[4]
L9016 was returned to the US in April 1956 and then transferred to Taiwan in November 1956, in which she was commissioned in November 1956, as ROCS Mei Kun (LSM-252). She was later redesignated LSM-352.
Underneath the cover of the night in January 1957, the ship escaped China through Kinmen and small waterways of Jinmen to avoid Communist Army's radar. At 8 in the evening, she lifted her anchor and left Liuluo Bay for Taiwan.[5]
The ship was put out of service in 1973 with her fate unknown.
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