USS Pulaski County

	USS Pulaski County (LST-1088), underway, date and location unknown.
History
United States
Name	LST-1088
Builder	American Bridge Company, Ambridge, Pennsylvania
Laid down	16 December 1944
Launched	11 February 1945
Commissioned	27 March 1945
Decommissioned	29 August 1946
Renamed	Pulaski County (LST-1088), 1 July 1955
Recommissioned	21 May 1963
Decommissioned	July 1967
In service	July 1967, as USNS Pulaski County (T-LST-1088)
Out of service	Unknown
Stricken	1 November 1973
Motto	Navis Septem Givitatum
Honors and; awards	2 battle stars (Vietnam)
Fate	Sold for scrapping, 1 January 1975, to Abdul Sattar Chbib, of Midea GmbH in Frankfurt, w/Germany.
General characteristics
Class and type	tank landing ship
Displacement	4,080 long tons (4,145 t) full
Length	328 ft (100 m)
Beam	50 ft (15 m)
Draft	14 ft (4.3 m) aft
Propulsion	2 × General Motors 12-567 diesel engines, two shafts, twin rudders
Speed	12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Boats & landing ; craft carried	2 × LCVPs
Troops	Approximately 130 officers and enlisted men
Complement	8–10 officers, 89–100 enlisted
Armament	1 × single 3"/50 caliber gun mount; 8 × 40 mm guns; 12 × 20 mm guns;

USS Pulaski County (LST-1088) was a

tank landing ship of the United States Navy, named for seven counties in the United States.^[1]

Construction

LST-1088 was

Algiers, Louisiana

, on 27 March 1945.

Service history

World War II, 1945–1946

After shakedown off Florida, LST-1088 departed the

Pacific Reserve Fleet

.

On 1 July 1955, LST-1088 was named USS Pulaski County (LST-1088). In 1961 Pulaski County was moved to the Reserve Group at Bremerton, Washington.

1963–1967

On 21 May 1963, she recommissioned and was assigned to Reserve LST Squadron 2 homeported in

Little Creek, Virginia. The ship underwent refresher training at San Diego from 17 June to 2 July, then sailed on 20 July via the Panama Canal

for Little Creek, arriving on 22 August.

In January and February 1964, Pulaski County transported obsolete ammunition from the

Dominican Republic operations

.

In early 1966 Pulaski County deployed from Little Creek to the Pacific via the Panama Canal. She spent most of the year in the western Pacific, particularly in

USNS

Pulaski County (T-LST-1088). She served with MSTS into 1970.