Philippine Navy LST

Good looking LST! Where did you get the plans for it? You may want to replace the stern anchor chain with wire, though....I served aboard a USN LST and we used 1 7/8" wire for the beaching anchor - you need a little "give" when you've got 600' of wire out, and chain just doesn't make the grade.

I can remember an abandoned LST that was grounded in Subic Bay back in the early seventies, any chance of a relationship with the 504?

drop-off wrote:

Good looking LST! Where did you get the plans for it? You may want to replace the stern anchor chain with wire, though....I served aboard a USN LST and we used 1 7/8" wire for the beaching anchor - you need a little "give" when you've got 600' of wire out, and chain just doesn't make the grade.

thanks for the inputs! maybe when i build my other two LST projects I would take note of your suggestions; i based the kit on pics i have of the 501 and other PN LSTS that i have in my PC...

 

 

the 504 was current until a year or so ago; may be the LST you were referring to was another one ( and im now curious who she was and what she looked like, hmmm....!)...

jepot wrote:

the 504 was current until a year or so ago; may be the LST you were referring to was another one ( and im now curious who she was and what she looked like, hmmm....!)...

The LST I saw was the old style, without the arms for extending the bow ramp. I had heard that she was transferred to the Phillippine Navy from the US Navy in the sixties.