High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! LSM(R)-197 was laid down at Charleston Navy Yard, Charleston, South Carolina. The ship was commissioned on 8 December 1944, Lt.John N. Cooper, USNR, in command. The LSM(R)-197 was one of twelve amphibious ships that evolved during WW II as battle experience identified new weapon requirements for the invasion of the Japanese home islands. These came out of modifications and conversions of LTC's, LCM's and LSM's. In 1944 with the US Navy BuOrd's mounting of a 5-inch/38 gun and state of the art rocket launchers on the LSM its mission changed and the LSM(R) became the "ultimate" landing troop fire support out to 4,000 yards beyond the beach, designed for interdiction, harassment, destruction , illumination and high trajectory fire to destroy reverse slope targets for the invasion of Japan.

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