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LST3008 tank landing ships (1945/1946)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
LST3008 L3008   Harland & Wolff, Belfast, UK 1944 31.10.1944 5.1945 // 7.1946 sold 6.1950
LST3014 L3014   Barclay Curle, Whiteinch, UK 4.1944 11.11.1944 3.1945 // 7.1946 sold 6.1950
LST3017, 12.1948- Tarakan L3017   Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn, UK 1944 28.11.1944 6.1945 // 7.1946 sold 3.1954
LST3022 L3022   Lithgows, Glasgow, UK 1944 26.1.1945 10.1945 // 7.1946 stricken 6.1950
LST3035, 12.1948- Lae L3035   Denny, Dumbarton, UK 1944 24.10.1944 3.1945 // 7.1946 sold 11.1955
LST3501, 12.1948- Labuan L3501   Canadian Vickers, Montreal, Canada 3.1944 24.8.1944 5.1945 // 7.1946 sold 11.1955


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

2300 light

Displacement full, t4980
Length, m105.9
Breadth, m16.8
Draught, m3.79 deep load
No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers

Power, h. p.

5500

Max speed, kts

13.5

Fuel, t

oil 1400

Endurance, nm(kts)8000(11)
Armament

(2 x 2 - 40/60 RP.50 Mk V, 2 x 2 - 20/70 Mk V, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk III) or (4 x 2 - 20/70 Mk V, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk III)

Military load5 LCA, 1 LCT(6), 15 40t or 20 25t tanks, 14 3t trucks, 170 troops
Electronic equipmentnav. radar
Complement111


Project history

Last British version of LST, however application of heavier VTE and riveted hull instead of welded has led to that the British variant yielded American on all parametres, except speed.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.