MEEKER COUNTY LST 980

Ship Name and Designation History

This section lists the names and designations that the ship had during its lifetime. The list is in chronological order.

LST-542 Class Tank Landing Ship Keel Laid December 9 1943 - Launched January 27 1944 USS LST-980 Commissioned February 26 1944 USS MEEKER COUNTY LST-980 Named July 1 1955 Decommissioned December 16 1955 Laid up in Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Florida Group Transferred October 1961 to Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Philadelphia, PA Recommissioned September 23 1966 - Decommissioned December 15 1970 Struck from Naval Register April 1 1975 Sold December 1 1975 for scrap Resold to Max Rouse & Sons, Beverly Hills, Ca for commercial use LST-3 (Commercial Service) Sold 1976 to Landing System Technology Pte. Ltd. Singapore and renamed PETROLA 143 (Commercial Service) Sold June 30 1978 to Maritime & Commercial Co. Argonaftis S.A., Panama Registered under Greek flag and renamed Scrapped August 7 1996 at Aliaga, Turkey

Naval Covers

This section lists active links to the pages displaying covers associated with the ship. There should be a separate set of pages for each name of the ship (for example, Bushnell AG-32 / Sumner AGS-5 are different names for the same ship so there should be one set of pages for Bushnell and one set for Sumner). Covers should be presented in chronological order (or as best as can be determined).

Since a ship may have many covers, they may be split among many pages so it doesn't take forever for the pages to load. Each page link should be accompanied by a date range for covers on that page.

1. Covers Page 1     (DATE RANGE)

 

Postmarks

This section lists examples of the postmarks used by the ship. There should be a separate set of postmarks for each name and/or commissioning period. Within each set, the postmarks should be listed in order of their classification type. If more than one postmark has the same classification, then they should be further sorted by date of earliest known usage.

A postmark should not be included unless accompanied by a close-up image and/or an image of a cover showing that postmark. Date ranges MUST be based ONLY ON COVERS IN THE MUSEUM and are expected to change as more covers are added.
 
>>> If you have a better example for any of the postmarks, please feel free to replace the existing example.

 

Postmark Type --- Killer Bar Text	Postmark Date	Thumbnail Link To Postmark Image	Thumbnail Link To Cover Image

 

NO LST-980 / MEEKER COUNTY POSTMARKS AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME

DATE FROM to DATE TO

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Other Information

LST-980 received one battle star for World War II service

MEEKER COUNTY received ten campaign stars for Vietnam War service

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons...
Combat Action Ribbon (4-Vietnam) [Mar. 2, 1968, May 23, 1968, Oct. 14, 1968, Jun. 28, 1970] - Navy Unit Commendation - Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation - American Campaign Medal - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal - National Defense Service Medal (2) - Vietnam Service Medal (10)- Republic of Vietnam Meritorious Unit Citation (Gallantry) (8 stars) - Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal

NAMESAKE - Meeker County, Minnesota

 

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