LSD-34 Hermitage

Country: United States

Class, [Type]: Thomaston, [LSD].

Builder: Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi, U.S.A.

Launch date: 21st June 1956.

Commission date: 14th December 1956.

Decommission date: 2nd October 1989.

Displacement ( tons ): 8.899 standard,11.525 full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 155,5 x 25,6 x 5,8

Main machinery: 2 x Combustion Engineering boilers, 2 x Westinghouse Electric steam engines ( 24.000 hp ), 2 x shafts.

Speed ( knots ): 22,5.

Complement: 348 ( 18 officers ) + 325.

Guns: 6 x 76mm/50 ( 3 x twin Mk33 ), originally 16 x 76mm.

Military lift: some cargo examples could be 21 x LCM-6, or 3 x LCU + 6 x LCM, or 80 x LVT.

Radar: Air Search: 1 x SPS-6; Surface Search: 1 x SPS-10; Navigation: 1 x SPS-59.

Callsign: NRVF ()

Comment: Transferred to Brazil in 2001, renamed Ceará.

Awards (as of 02/10/1989):