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L9011 medium landing ships (1944 - 1945 / 1954)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
LSM110 (ex-LSM110) L9011   Brown SB, Houston, USA 10/1944 28.10.1944 11.1944 // 1.1954 to USA 10.1955
LSM355 (ex-LSM355) L9012   Brown SB, Houston, USA 11/1944 2.12.1944 12.1944 // 1.1954 to USA 12.1955
LSM125 (ex-LSM125) L9013   Brown SB, Houston, USA 11/1944 25.11.1944 12.1944 // 1.1954 to USA 7.1956
LSM316 (ex-LSM316) L9014   Pullman Standard Car, Chicago, USA 1944 1944 7.1944 // 1.1954 to USA 11.1956
LSM422 (ex-LSM422) L9015   Dravo, Wilmington, USA 1944 1944 12.1944 // 2.1954 to USA 3.1956
LSM478 (ex-LSM478) L9016   Brown SB, Houston 1945 1945 4.1945 // 4.1954 to USA 11.1956
LSM17 (ex-LSM17) L9017   Brown SB, Houston, USA 1944 1944 6.1944 // 4.1954 to USA 10.1956
LSM58 (ex-LSM58) L9018   Brown SB, Houston, USA 1944 1944 8.1944 // 4.1954 to USA 10.1955
LSM226 (ex-LSM226) L9019   Dravo, Wilmington, USA 1944 1944 9.1944 // 4.1954 to USA 10.1956
LSM85 (ex-LSM85) L9051   Brown SB, Houston, USA 1944 1944 10.1944 // 5.1954 to USA 10.1956
LSM471 (ex-LSM471) L9052   Brown SB, Houston, USA 1945 1945 3.1945 // 5.1954 to USA 11.1956
LSM479 (ex-LSM479) L9053?   Brown SB, Houston, USA 1945 1945 4.1945 // 4.1954 to USA 10.1956


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

520

Displacement full, t1095
Length, m

59.9 wl 62.0 oa

Breadth, m

10.5

Draught, m

landing: 1.07 fore, 2.13 aft

No of shafts2
Machinery

4 General Motors diesels

Power, h. p.

2800

Max speed, kts

12.5

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)4900 (12)
Armament

1 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 4 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4

Military load

5 medium or 3 heavy tanks or 6 LVT or 9 DUKW, 48 - 54 marines

Electronic equipmentradar
Complement60


Standard scale images


<i>LSM110 </i>1955
LSM110 1955


Project history

Former USN LSM type landing ships, transferred for the war in the South Asia.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

After being returned to USN, all ships were immediately transferred to South Vietnam, South Korea and Taiwan.