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The last fully operational WWII Landing Ship Tank in US waters — a Normandy veteran now permanently moored in Evansville with ticketed tours and forthcoming paranormal investigations.
610 NW Riverside Dr, Evansville, IN 47708
Research updated June 2026
Age
All Ages
Cost
$$
Ticketed admission for guided tours; see website for current pricing.
Access
Limited Access
Steel ship decks with ladders and hatches; not accessible for mobility impairments
Equipment
Photos OK
Est. 1942 · Normandy D-Day Veteran (Utah Beach, June 6, 1944) · Last fully operational WWII Landing Ship Tank · Allied invasion of Sicily 1943 · Built in Evansville's WWII shipbuilding tradition
Landing Ship Tanks were the workhorses of the Allied amphibious campaigns. Designed to ferry tanks, vehicles, and troops directly onto beaches without a dock, LSTs were built in large numbers at yards up and down the Ohio River — including at Evansville, Indiana, which constructed 167 of them during the war. USS LST-325, commissioned in October 1942, became one of the class's most traveled survivors.
She went in with the first wave at Sicily in July 1943, then supported the Normandy landing on Utah Beach on June 6, 1944, offloading vehicles and equipment through the surf under fire. After the war she was transferred to Greece, where the Hellenic Navy operated her for decades before decommissioning her in the 1990s. By 2001 she was the last fully operational WWII-era LST afloat anywhere.
American veterans organized a crew and sailed her from Crete to Evansville in the spring of 2001, a trans-Atlantic voyage in a 59-year-old ship that itself attracted considerable press coverage. She berthed permanently at the Evansville riverfront, and the LST Ship Memorial organization opened her as a museum. Crew volunteers, many of them LST veterans, staff the ship and conduct guided tours.
Paranormal investigators documented anomalies during authorized investigations aboard the ship. Footsteps in unmanned compartments and partial apparitions captured on digital video recorders were reported during those sessions. The museum has since announced forthcoming ticketed paranormal ghost hunt evenings, with tickets listed as coming soon as of mid-2026.
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The LST-325 carried more than 80 men through amphibious assaults in the Mediterranean and at Normandy. Whether any of those men died aboard is not documented in available sources, but the ship's combat history gives it a charged atmosphere that paranormal investigators have found compelling.
Authorized investigations have reported footsteps in compartments with no one present and partial apparitions recorded on digital video in the tank deck and crew spaces. Evansville Living documented these investigator reports in coverage of the city's haunted landmarks. The events were not staged for entertainment but rather reported by investigators who had arranged access through the museum.
As of mid-2026, the LST Ship Memorial website was advertising forthcoming ticketed paranormal ghost hunt evenings, listing tickets as available soon. No live booking URL was active at time of research. The museum's standard guided tour program runs year-round and represents the accessible public offering.
Hour-long guided tours of the LST-325 depart on the hour from opening through 3:00 PM. Crew volunteers — many of them veterans — lead visitors through the tank deck, crew quarters, wheelhouse, and engine room. The ship remains operational and occasionally sails to other ports.
Before or after a guided tour, visitors can walk the exterior decks and view the ship's hull from the dock. The scale of the vessel — 328 feet — gives a clear sense of the amphibious operations it supported during the Normandy invasion.
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