page_title: USS Middlesex County (LST-983)
section_title: Post-war activities, 1945–1955
hierarchical_section_title: USS Middlesex County (LST-983) / Service history / Post-war activities, 1945–1955
caption_attribution_description: English: The U.S. Navy tank landing ship USS Middlesex County (LST-983) launches a U.S. Marine Corps LVTP-5 for a waterborne landing, in the 1960s. USS Clarke County (LST-601) is visible in the background.
context_page_description: USS Middlesex County (LST-983) was an LST-542-class tank landing ship built for the United States Navy during World War II. Named after counties in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Virginia, she was the only U.S. Naval vessel to bear the name.
  Originally laid down as LST-983 on 22 December 1943 at the Boston Navy Yard; the ship was launched on 10 February 1944, sponsored by Mrs. Neal B. Farwell; and commissioned on 25 March 1944 with Lieutenant Woodrow W. Weir, USNR, in command.
context_section_description: During the decade following World War II, LST-983 has played a prominent role in the training of Naval, Marine, and Army personnel in the skills needed to maintain a high state of operational readiness. Based at Norfolk, Virginia she participated in amphibious training with the United States Marine Corps at Quantico, Virginia and at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. She also took part in amphibious warfare demonstration and exercises during annual summer midshipmen training cruises. Each spring she also joined in maneuvers of the Atlantic Fleet in the Caribbean, making amphibious assaults on Vieques, Puerto Rico. In addition, the landing ship replenished several isolated bases in the Arctic. Her duties took her to many ports in the Caribbean and on the eastern seaboard of the United States.
  On 1 July 1955, LST-983 was named USS Middlesex County (LST-983). Her status was reduced to in commission, in reserve on 1 October, and she decommissioned at Green Cove Springs, Florida on 10 January 1956 and entered the Atlantic Reserve Fleet.
caption: LST-983 launches an LVT, date and location unknown.
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