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USS WST-1

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History
NameUSS WST-1
BuilderAdams & Company, Berrys Bay, Sydney, Australia
Launched1945
Fateran aground on 27 July 1945.
General characteristics
TypeSalvage tug
Displacement325 tons
Complement12

USS WST-1 was a 325-ton salvage tug of the United States Navy during World War II.

She was built by Adams & Company, Berrys Bay, Sydney, Australia for the United States Navy in 1945. While travelling up the east coast of Australia, she ran aground on rocks off Susan Gilmore Beach, Newcastle in heavy fog on 27 July 1945 and was holed. Captain W. F. Martin and the eleven crew were rescued.[1]

Citations

  1. ^ "Tug runs ashore near Newcastle, The Sydney Morning Herald, Saturday 28 July 1945, p.4". Retrieved 18 October 2010.


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