Battleship in OHIO river!!! Say What

America is Preparing.

Doom on.

must be in Sin-Sin natti

can't be a battleship as in the "New Jersey" class that Reagan had refurbished or such, they are too big for a river, but must be a big boat ready for a battle. Curious if it is regualr US Navy or Coast Guard.

Are you sure it's not a boat there to help fix the Sherman-Minton Bridge? That's ok, I'm leaving the house to go downtown hopefully I'll be back with pictures.

i hope you can get some pics. i often see military planes and such but this is kinda crazy. I dont believe it is there for the bridge. it is going to take a few months just to fabricate steel for the bridge.

Last Edited by kraizeechick on 10/02/2011 02:38 PM

Could this be what you are seeing?

USS LST-325From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, search

LST-325 (left) and USS LST-388 unloading while stranded at low tide during the invasion of Normandy in June 1944.
Note: propellers, rudders and other underwater details of these LSTs, 40 mm single guns, and "Danforth" style kedge anchor at the stern.
Career (USA)
Name: USS LST-325
Builder: Philadelphia Navy Yard
Laid down: 10 August 1942
Launched: 27 October 1942
Commissioned: 1 February 1943
Decommissioned: 2 July 1946
Struck: 1 September 1961
Honours and
awards: 2 battle stars (WWII)
Fate: An operational vessel. Home port as a museum ship, Evansville, Indiana
Career (Greece)
Name: RHS Syros (L-144)
Acquired: 1 September 1964
Decommissioned: 1999
Fate: Sold, 2000
General characteristics
Class and type: LST-1-class tank landing ship
Displacement: 1,625 long tons (1,651 t) light
4,080 long tons (4,145 t) full (sea-going draft with 1675 ton load)
Length: 327 ft 9 in (99.90 m)
Beam: 50 ft (15 m)
Draft: Light :
2 ft 4 in (0.71 m) forward
7 ft 6 in (2.29 m) aft
Sea-going :
8 ft 3 in (2.51 m) forward
14 ft 1 in (4.29 m) aft
Landing (with 500 ton load) :
3 ft 11 in (1.19 m) forward
9 ft 10 in (3.00 m) aft
Propulsion: 2 General Motors 12-567 900 hp (671 kW) diesel engines, two shafts, twin rudders
Speed: 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Range: 24,000 nmi (44,000 km) at 9 kn (17 km/h; 10 mph)
Boats and landing
craft carried: 2 × LCVPs
Complement: 7 officers, 104 enlisted
Armament: • 2 × twin 40 mm gun mounts
• 4 × single 40 mm gun mounts
• 12 × single 20 mm gun mounts

USS LST 325
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location: 840 LST Drive
Evansville, Indiana
NRHP Reference#: 09000434
Added to NRHP: June 24, 2009

USS LST-325 is a decommissioned tank landing ship of the United States Navy, now docked in Evansville, Indiana. Like many of her class, she was not named and is properly referred to by her hull designation (LSTs in service after July 1955 were named after U.S. counties and parishes).

The ship was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 2009.[1] The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on June 24, 2009 and the listing was announced as the featured listing in the National Park Service's weekly list of July 2, 2009.[2]

Contents [hide]
1 Service history
1.1 US Navy, 1942–1961
1.2 Hellenic Navy, 1964–1999
2 USS LST Ship Memorial Museum
2.1 Evansville
3 References
4 External links


[edit] Service history[edit] US Navy, 1942–1961LST-325 was launched on October 27, 1942, from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The ship operated in the North Africa area and participated in the invasions at Gela, Sicily and Salerno, Italy. On June 6, 1944, LST-325 became part of the largest armada in history by participating in the Normandy Landings at Omaha Beach. It carried 59 vehicles, 31 officers and a total of 408 enlisted men on that first trip. On its first trip back to England from France, LST-325 hauled 38 casualties back to a friendly port. Over the next nine months, Navy records show LST-325 made more than 40 trips back and forth across the English Channel, carrying thousands of men and pieces of equipment that troops needed to successfully complete the liberation of Europe. The ship continued to run supply trips between England and France before returning to the United States in March 1945. LST-325 was decommissioned on 2 July 1946, at Green Cove Springs, Florida, and laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet.

The ship was placed in service with the Military Sea Transportation Service in 1951 as USNS T-LST-325, and took part in "Operation SUNAC" (Support of North Atlantic Construction), venturing into the Labrador Sea, Davis Strait, and Baffin Bay to assist in the building of radar outposts along the eastern shore of Canada and western Greenland.

Struck from the Naval Vessel Register, on September 1, 1961, LST-325 was transferred to the Maritime Administration (MARAD) for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet.

[edit] Hellenic Navy, 1964–1999LST-325 was sent to Greece on September 1, 1964, as part of the grant-in-aid program. She served in the Hellenic Navy as RHS Syros (L-144) from 1964 to 1999.

[edit] USS LST Ship Memorial MuseumThe USS LST Memorial, Inc., a group of retired military men, acquired the LST-325 in 2000. They paid their way to Greece, made the necessary repairs to the ship and sailed it back to the United States, arriving in Mobile Harbor on January 10, 2001. In 2003, LST-325 made a sentimental journey up the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. The 10-day stop in Evansville, Indiana, allowed more than 35,000 people to take a tour. In May and June 2005, she sailed up the east coast under her own power for a 60-day tour of several ports, visiting Alexandria, Virginia, and Buzzard's Bay, Boston, Gloucester, Massachusetts. LST-325 is one of the last navigable LSTs in operation in the U.S. Others include LST-510 in daily use as a ferry between Orient, NY and New London, CT, and the dredge M/V Columbia operating on the Gulf Coast. She is undergoing constant maintenance and restoration, and is in excellent shape, according to her crew. On October 1, 2005 Evansville, Indiana, became her home port (although this ship still visits other ports each year).

[edit] EvansvilleDuring World War II, the Evansville, Indiana, riverfront was transformed into a 45-acre (180,000 m2) shipyard to produce LSTs. At its peak, the Evansville Shipyard employed a workforce of over 19,000 and completed two of these massive ships per week, becoming the largest inland producer of LSTs in the nation. Although the Evansville Shipyard was originally contracted to produce 24 ships, 167 LSTs and 35 other vessels were built in Evansville. LST-325 is now home ported in Evansville as a memorial museum to LSTs and the city's war effort.

LST 325 in Evansville.
The ship's bridge.
A restored M16 MGMC
A typical troop compartment.
The ship's crew, circa 1945.
The engine room.
The tank deck, looking forward.
A graphic, painted on the ship by the Greek crew.
The ship's crew from trans-Atlantic crossing.
A 40 mm AA gun tub.
The LST's deck, from the wheelhouse deck.

LST 325 Ship's awards. From left to right: American Campaign Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with two service stars, World War II Victory Medal.
LST 325 ship's wheel and engine order telegraph[edit] References1.^ Steve Boeder and Paul Diebold (December 22, 2008). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: USS LST-325" (PDF). National Park Service. [link to www.nps.gov] Retrieved August 12, 2009. (92 pages, with diagrams and approximately 40 photos)
2.^ "Weekly List Actions". National Park Service. [link to www.nps.gov] Retrieved August 12, 2009.
[edit] External links37°57′09″N 87°34′37″W / 37.9524929°N 87.5768092°W / 37.9524929; -87.5768092 (LST 325 Homeport - Evansville, Indiana) Coordinates for LST-325's Homeport in Evansville, Indiana
Naval Historical Center
The USS LST Ship Memorial: Visiting information
Historic Naval Ships Association: USS LST-325
Details of LST-325's journey home
Photo gallery of USS LST-325 at NavSource Naval History
This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
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... used to live in OHIO ...
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... roads ... bridges ... falling down ... BUT ... adult illiteracy ... the taxes and corruption we saw ... institutional politicians busy "feathering" their nests ...
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Ohio?

Lol that state sucks.

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... but ... indeed ... why a BATTLESHIP? ...
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... it needs new guns? ...
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... be made into a restaurant? ...
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... to protect the speaker of the house? ...
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... to capture the speaker of the house? ...
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From my daughter who lives in Lexington, KY and drives through Louisville for work everyday. (I sent her OP's post and asked her if she knew anything about it)

"....I saw that too it was a huge ship that had flags on it from a bunch of different countries. It was parked near the bridge by the restaurant over looking the river. I thought it was a tourist attraction in town or sumthin lol...."

GET A PICTURE FOR PETE'S SAKE!!!!

I found it:

WWII ship comes to Louisville waterfront for Medal of Honor convention

picture and article is here:

[link to www.courier-journal.com]

It is the LST 325 that has been on tour since August 28th. Her home base is Evansville Indiana when she's not out out tour. She is an operational museum. Well worthe the money to tour her & see history. It is an LST Landing ship Tank... not a battleship or any other kind of ship. Glad you found the article to explain it.

It is the LST 325 that has been on tour since August 28th. Her home base is Evansville Indiana when she's not out out tour. She is an operational museum. Well worthe the money to tour her & see history. It is an LST Landing ship Tank... not a battleship or any other kind of ship. Glad you found the article to explain it.

Ha HA...an LST isn't even close to the size of a Battleship.

You fucking paranoid pussies. JFC