HM LST-416

HMS LST-416 was as a Landing Ship, Tank Mk.2 of the Royal Navy during World War II.

Built as a LST-1-class tank landing ship for the United States Navy, it was transferred to the British in 1943 and returned to US in 1946.

LST-416 was laid down on 25 October 1942, under Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 936, by the Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, Baltimore, Maryland; launched 30 November 1942; then transferred to the United Kingdom and commissioned on 3 February 1943.

She was decommissioned and returned to United States Navy custody on 12 February 1946, and struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 5 June 1946.

On 23 April 1948, LST-416 was sold to the Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Newport News, Virginia, for conversion to merchant service.