USS LSM-469
# USS LSM-469

12°55′57″N 100°41′35″E﻿ / ﻿12.932583°N 100.693183°E﻿ / 12.932583; 100.693183

USS LSM-469 was a LSM-1-class landing ship medium in the United States Navy during World War II. The ship was transferred to Thailand and renamed HTMS Kram (LSM-3) (Thai: เรือหลวงคราม).

## Construction and career

LSM-469 was laid down on 27 January 1945 at Brown Shipbuilding Co., Houston, Texas. Launched on 17 February 1945 and commissioned on 17 March 1945.

During World War II, LSM-469 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific theater. She took part in the occupation service in the Far East from 20 September 1945 to 11 April 1946.

LSM-469 was decommissioned on 29 August 1946 and later transferred to Thailand on 25 May 1962.

She was struck from the Navy Register.

The ship was commissioned into the Royal Thai Navy on 12 July 1962 and renamed HTMS Kram (LSM-3). She was later redesignated as LSM-732, later in her career.

The ship was decommissioned on 26 February 2002 and to be sunk as an artificial reef off Pattaya on 1 February 2003.

## Awards

LST-469 have earned the following awards:

* American Campaign Medal
* Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal
* Navy Occupation Service Medal
* World War II Victory Medal

## Citations

* 1 2 "Landing Ship Medium (LSM)". www.navsource.org. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
* ↑ "USS LSM 469 (LSM 469) of the US Navy - American Medium landing ship of the LSM class - Allied Warships of WWII - uboat.net". uboat.net. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
* ↑ "PANTIP.COM : E4722851 เรื่องราวของ "เรือหลวงคราม" เรือจมใต้น้ำ ณ เกาะไผ่ [ท่องเที่ยวไทย]". topicstock.pantip.com. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
* ↑ "เรือหลวงไผ่(ลำที่ 2) – Seafarer Library". Retrieved 1 January 2022.
* ↑ "HTMS Khraam - Thai Wreck Diver". www.thaiwreckdiver.com. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
* ↑ "HTMS Khram Wreck Dive Site | Dive Pattaya". Dive Right Co Ltd. 2 November 2016. Retrieved 1 January 2022.

## Sources

* United States. Dept. of the Treasury (1962). Treasury Decisions Under the Customs, Internal Revenue, Industrial Alcohol, Narcotic and Other Laws, Volume 97. U.S. Government Printing Office.
* Moore, Capt. John (1984). Jane's Fighting Ships 1984-85. Jane's Information Group. ISBN 978-0710607959.
* Saunders, Stephen (2009). Jane's Fighting Ships 2009-2010. Jane's Information Group. ISBN 978-0710628886.
* Fairplay International Shipping Journal Volume 222. United Kingdom: Fairplay Publishing Limited. 1967.

vteLSM-1-class landing ships medium :

Preceded by: None

Followed by: LSM(R)-188 class :

List of United States Navy amphibious warfare ships :

