The SS Empire Javelin

The last several days, I have been blogging about the LST-325 and mentioned how in December 1944, it rescued more than 700 men after the SS Empire Javelin, a troopship, was sunk.

The Empire Javelin was classified as LSI (Large), and infantry landing ship and built by the Consolidated Steel Corporation of Wilmington, California, and launched October 25, 1943.  Lend-leased to Britain, at D-Day it carried members of the 1st Battalion 116th Infantry Regiment of the US 29th Division.

It was sunk in the English Channel Dec. 28, 1944.  It was initially thought that the U-772 sank it, but it was later found that ship had been sunk a month prior.  The U-322 then became the candidate as it was known to have been active in the area at the time., but it was sunk December 29, 1944.  Now, it is thought the Empire Javelin might have been sunk by a mine.

GreGen