USS LST-33

History
Name:	LST-33
Builder:	Dravo Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Laid down:	23 February 1943
Launched:	21 June 1943
Sponsored by:	Mrs. Paul J. Walsh
Struck:	23 June 1947
Identification:	Hull symbol: LST-33
Fate:	Transferred to the Hellenic Navy, 18 August 1943
Greece
Name:	Samos
Namesake:	Region unit of Samos
Acquired:	18 August 1943
Identification:	Hull symbol: L179
Fate:	Sold to Greece, January 1947
Status:	Fate unknown
General characteristics
Type:	LST-1-class tank landing ship
Displacement:	Template:LST-1 class tank landing ship displacement
Length:	Template:LST-1 class tank landing ship length
Beam:	Template:LST-1 class tank landing ship beam
Draft:	Template:LST-1 class tank landing ship draft
Installed power:	Template:LST-1 class tank landing ship power
Propulsion:	Template:LST-1 class tank landing ship propulsion
Speed:	Template:LST-1 class tank landing ship speed
Range:	Template:LST-1 class tank landing ship range
Boats & landing craft carried:	Template:LST-1 class tank landing ship boats
Capacity:	Template:LST-1 class tank landing ship capacity
Troops:	16 officers, 147 enlisted men
Complement:	13 officers, 104 enlisted men
Armament:	Template:LST-1 class tank landing ship armament

USS LST-33 was an LST-1-class tank landing ship of the United States Navy built during World War II. She was transferred to the Hellenic Navy on 18 August 1943, before being commissioned into the USN.

Construction

LST-33 was laid down on 23 February 1943, at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by the Dravo Corporation; launched on 21 June 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Paul J. Walsh; and transferred to the Hellenic Navy on 18 August 1943, and renamed HS Samos (L179).

Service History

Samos, ex-LST-33, sailed from Galveston Bar for Key West, Florida, on 28 August 1943, with convoy HK 125, arriving in Key West, 1 September 1943.

On 11 October 1943, Samos left Halifax, Nova Scotia, in convoy SC 144, en route she joined convoy WN 497 that had departed Loch Ewe, on 26 October. She arrived in Methil, Scotland, on 28 October with a load of lumber.

Samos departed Methil, on 3 December 1943, in convoy EN 314 (series 2), arriving in Loch Ewe, on 5 December. She departed Liverpool, England, in convoy OS 61/KMS 35, on 8 December 1943. The convoy split on 19 December, with Samos continuing on in convoy convoy KMS 35G, arriving in Gibraltar, on 21 December.

She sailed out of Taranto, Italy, in convoy HP 1, on 24 Octorber 1944, arriving in Piraeus, Greece, on 27 October 1944.

Her last recorded convoy was from New York City, on 2 March 1945, in convoy NG 493, arriving in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, on 9 March 1945.

Final disposition

She was sold to the government of Greece in January 1947. She was struck from the Navy list on 23 June 1947.

Bibliography

Online resources

•  This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

External links

• Photo gallery of USS LST-33 at NavSource Naval History