The third
USS Raritan (LSM-540) was a
landing ship[?] medium, laid down
10 May 1945 at
Brown Shipbuilding Corporation[?],
Houston, Texas, launched August 1945, commissioned as USS
LSM-540 6 December 1945, LT.
Roy T. Rector[?], USNR in command. She was decommissioned
29 May 1946, at
Green Cove Springs, Florida and laid up in the
Atlantic Reserve Fleet[?], Florida Group, Green Cove Springs. Recommissioned
4 November 1957, she was renamed USS
Raritan (LSM-540)
14 October 1959, then decommissioned
1 December 1959 at
Norfolk, Virginia and struck from the Naval Register
1 January 1960.
- Displacement: 520 tons (light), 743 tons (landing) 1,095 tons (fully loaded)
- Length: 203.5 ft ( m)
- Beam: 34.5 ft ( m)
- Draft: 3.5 ft forward, 7.7 ft aft (light), 6.3 ft forward, 8.3 ft aft (fully loaded)
- Speed: 13.2 knots
- Complement: 4 officers, 54 enlisted men
- Armament: 1 40mm gun, 4 x 20mm guns
- Capacity: 3 heavy or 5 medium tanks or 6 LVTs[?], 48 men
This article includes information collected from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.