I live in the town where the worlds only LST capable of still moving under its own power is docked so I figured I would share this. The USS LST Ship Memorial (USS LST 325) also, an expert from another site, "During World War II, the Evansville, IN, 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."
That may have been the very one that visited Peoria Illinois a year or so ago. There were 156 built at Senaca, Illinois. So Evansville was definitely the leader! Landing Ship, Tank - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
it probably was the one that visited Illinois, if I remember correctly it visited a variety of places before finally docking here. Winston Churchill - "The destinies of two great empires ... seemed to be tied by some god-damned things called LST's."
