United States
Name: USS LSM-45
Builder: Brown Shipyard Co., Houston, Texas
Laid down: 6 June 1944
Launched: 30 June 1944
Commissioned: 31 July 1944
Decommissioned: 27 March 1947
Fate: Transferred to Greece, 3 November 1958
Greece
Name: Ypoploiarchos Grigoropoulos
Acquired: 3 November 1958
Identification: L161
Fate: o Returned to United States as museum ship, 1998
o Sold to be converted into a barge, then scrapped
General characteristics
Class and type: LSM-1-class Landing Ship Medium
Displacement: o 520 long tons (528 t) empty
o 1,095 long tons (1,113 t) full load
Length: 203 ft 6 in (62.03 m)
Beam: 34 ft 6 in (10.52 m)
Draft: o Landing :
o 3 ft 6 in (1.07 m) forward
o 7 ft 8 in (2.34 m) aft
o Full load :
o 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) forward
o 8 ft 3 in (2.51 m) aft
Propulsion: 2 Fairbanks-Morse diesel engines, 2,800 shp (2,088 kW), direct drive, 2 screws
Speed: 13.2 knots (24.4 km/h; 15.2 mph)
Range: 4,900 nmi (9,100 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Capacity: o 5 × medium tanks or
o 3 × heavy tanks or
o 6 × LVTs or
o 9 × DUKWs
Troops: 2 officers, 46 enlisted
Complement: 5 officers, 54 enlisted
Armament: o 1 × single 40 mm AA gun
o 4 × single 20 mm AA guns
USS LSM-45 is a LSM-1-class medium landing ship built for the United States Navy during World War II. The ship also served
