USS Grant County
1956 De Soto County-class tank landing ship
USS Grant County (LST-1174) was a De Soto County-class tank landing ship built for the United States Navy during the late 1950s. Named after counties in fifteen states, she was the only U.S. Naval vessel to bear the name.
Grant County was designed under project SCB 119 and laid down by Avondale Marine Ways, Inc. of Avondale, Louisiana 15 March 1956; launched 12 October 1956; sponsored by Mrs. John Martin Higgins; and commissioned 17 December 1957.
Service history
1958–1964
After shakedown, Grant County performed amphibious exercises along the Atlantic coast and in the Caribbean throughout 1958. From 1958 to 1962 the LST excelled in training and experimental amphibious operations in the Atlantic, Caribbean, and on two occasions the Mediterranean. Following operations with Marines at Camp Pendleton in October, 1962 Grant County was dispatched to Florida for assignment during the Cuban Missile Crisis. When the crisis eased, Grant County resumed her training, and remained on alert in the event of another flare-up.
1965–1966
President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered marines to intervene in the Dominican Civil War.
“USS Grant County” enters the record as 1956 De Soto County-class tank landing ship. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Grant, County and Soto can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 13, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7869818. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1174, 1956, 1957 and 1958.
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