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LST-393 launched

82 years ago today, on 11 November 1942, LST-1-class tank landing ship USS LST-393 was launched at Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. in Newport News, VA
USS LST 393 Veterans Museum, Muskegon, MI

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Bittersweet launched

82 years ago today, on 11 November 1943, Iris-class 180-foot buoy tender USCGC Bittersweet (WLB-389) was launched at the Zenith Dredge Company, Duluth, Minnesota. She was transferred to Estonia on 5 September 1997 as 'Valvas' (PVL-109), and is now a museum ship at Eesti Meremuuseum, Tallinn, Estonia.

 

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