LSD-15 Shadwell

Country:  United States

Class, [Type]: Casa Grande, [LSD].

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

Launch date: 24 May 1944.

Commission date: 24 July 1944.

Decommission date: 09 March 1970.

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: NJAH ()

Comment: Ex - HMS Tomahawk BAPM-7, Ex - HMS Waterway F-146. Initially built for the United Kingdom.

Awards (as of 09/03/1970): 

Similar units:

 LSD13 Casa Grande
 L31 Galicia