LSD-38 Pensacola

Country:  United States

Class, [Type]: Anchorage, [LSD].

Builder: General Dynamics, Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

Launch date: 11 July 1970.

Commission date: 27 March 1971.

Decommission date: 30 September 1999.

Displacement ( tons ): 8.600 standard, 13.700 full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 168,6 x 25,6 x 6

Main machinery: 2 x Foster & Wheeler boilers, 2 x De Laval turbines ( 24.000 hp ), 2 shafts.

Speed ( knots ): 22.

Range ( miles ): 14.800 at 12 knots.

Complement: 374 ( 24 officers ).

Guns: 2 x GE/GD Vulcan Phalanx Mk15 CIWS 20mm.

Military lift: 366 soldiers ( 18 officers), 3 x LCU or 3 x LCAC or 18 x LCM6 or 9 x LCM8 or 50 x LVT; 1 x LCM 6 on deck; 2 x LCPL and 1 x LCVP. Carries 90 tons of aviation fuel.

Radar: Air: Lockheed SPS 40B/C; E/F bands, 320km range. Surface: Raytheon SPS 10; G banda. Navigation: Marconi LN66; I band. TACAN: URN25.

Countermeasures: Decoys: 4 x Loral Hycor SRBOC Mk36; chaff and flare dispensers; ESM: SLQ 32(V)1.

Callsign: NKZI ()

Comment: Has two cranes able to lift up to 50 tons. 4 ships of the class were involved in the Gulf War. Sold to Taiwan, and renamed 'Shui Hai'.

Awards (as of 08/01/1999): 

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