LSD-13 Casa Grande

Country:  United States

Class, [Type]: Casa Grande, [LSD].

Builder: Newport News, Virginia, U.S.A.

Launch date: 11 April 1944.

Commission date: 05 June 1944.

Decommission date: 06 October 1969.

Displacement ( tons ): 4.490 standard, 9.375 full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 139,52 x 22 x 5,48

Main machinery: 2 x Babcock & Wilcox boilers, 2 x Newport News Shipbuilding steam engines ( 14.000 hp ), 2 x shafts.

Speed ( knots ): 15.

Range ( miles ): 7.400 at 15 knots.

Complement: 254 ( 17 officers ).

Guns: 1 x 127mm/38 Mk12, 2 x 40mm Bofors ( quad mounts ), 2 x 40mm Bofors ( double mounts ), 16 x 20mm.

Military lift: 240 soldiers ( 22 officers ), some cargo examples could be 3 x LCT MkV/VI carrying 5 medium tanks each, or 2 x LCT MkIII/IV carrying 12 medium tanks each, or 14 x LCM MkIII carrying 1 medium tank or 1,5tm cargo, or 47 x DUKW, or 41 x LVT.

Radar: ?.

Callsign: NJNH ()

Comment: Ex - HMS Spear BAPM-5, Ex - HMS Portway F-144. Initially built for the United Kingdom.

Awards (as of 06/10/1969): 

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 LSD15 Shadwell
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