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FIGHTING SHIPS OF THE WORLD
PERSIA / IRAN
AMPHIBIOUS SHIPS AND CRAFT
HENGAM small landing ships (1943/1957-1958)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
إنقم، إنجم  [Hengam] (ex-LSIL9037, ex-LSIL768, ex-LCI(L)768) 41   Commercial Iron Works, Portland, USA 5.1944 6.1944 6.1944 // 1957 stricken early 1970s
لرك [Larak] (ex-LSIL9036, ex-LSIL710, ex-LCI(L)710) 42   George Lawley, Neponset, USA 7.1944 7.1944 7.1944 // 12.1958 stricken mid-1970s


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

209

Displacement full, t

385

Length, m

46.6 wl 48.9 oa

Breadth, m

7.21

Draught, m

at landing 0.86 fore, 1.60 aft

No of shafts

2

Machinery

8 General Motors diesels

Power, h. p.

2320

Max speed, kts

15.5

Fuel, t

diesel oil 110

Endurance, nm(kts)

8000 (12)

Armament

5 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10

Military load

209 marines of 75 t of cargo

Electronic equipmentpresumably SO or SCR-517A radar
Complement

29



Standard scale images


<i>Hengam </i>1960
Hengam 1960


Project history

US LCI(L) class infantry landing craft, large, transferred to Iran under MDAP after service under French flag.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.