USS Dodge County

USS Dodge County (LST-722) was an LST-542 class Landing Ship Tank, built for the United States Navy during World War II.

During World War II, LST-722 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific theater, and would go on to participate in the landings at Palawan, then Mindanao.

Recommissioned on the sixteenth of November 1951, she was assigned to the Amphibious Force of the United States Atlantic Fleet.

Dodge County was recommissioned once again in 1961, and participated in the Cuban Missile Crisis from October to December of the following year.

After serving as an amphibious warfare training ship for the Royal Thai Marine Corps, Prathong was decommissioned circa 2003; she was originally to be scrapped, but the order was superseded, and she was abandoned beside the village of Thung La-Ong, at approximately 9°2.602 N, 98° 19.375 E. In 2016 the USS Dodge County, LST 722 / HTMS Prathong was sunk of the coast of Thailand to serve as a diving reef.