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Mei Chin

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
美珍 [Mei Chin] (ex-LSM155)	LSM341		Charleston N Yd, USA	5/1944	19.6.1944	7.1944 // 10.1949	stricken 6.2005
美樂 [Mei Le] (ex-LSM157)	LSM342		Charleston N Yd, USA	5/1944	19.6.1944	8.1944 // 10.1949	sunk 9.1958
美益 [Mei Yi] (ex-LSM285)	LSM343		Federal, Newark, USA	10/1944	30.11.1944	12.1944 // 10.1949	stricken 1973
美朋 [Mei Peng] (ex-LSM431)	LSM344		Dravo, Wilmington, USA	12/1944	2.2.1945	2.1945 // 10.1949	stricken 6.1972
美亨 [Mei Heng] (ex-LSM456)	LSM345		Western Pipe & Steel, San Francisco, USA	1944	1945	2.1945 // 10.1949	stricken 1970
美宏 [Mei Hong] (ex-LSM442)	LSM346		Dravo, Wilmington, USA	1945	6.4.1945	4.1945 // 10.1949	stricken 1962
美頌 [Mei Song] (ex-LSM457)	LSM347		Western Pipe & Steel, San Francisco, USA	12/1944	17.3.1945	3.1945 // 10.1949	stricken 6.2005
美和 [Mei He] (ex-LSM13)	LSM348, 1960s- CMC348		Brown SB, Houston, USA	1944	1944	6.1944 // 10.1949	minelayer 1960s, stricken 1972
美堅 [Mei Jian] (ex-LSM76)	LSM349		Brown SB, Houston, USA	1944	1944	9.1944 // 10.1949	stricken 1970
美華 [Mei Hua] (ex-LSM256)	LSM350		Federal, Newark, USA	2/1944	22.4.1944	5.1944 // 10.1949	collision 16.6.1969
美成 [Mei Cheng] (ex-LSM422)	LSM351		Dravo, Wilmington, USA	1944	1944	12.1944 // 11.1956	stricken 1971
美功 [Mei Kun] (ex-LSM478)	LSM352		Brown SB, Houston, USA	1945	1945	4.1945 // 11.1956	stricken 1973
美平 [Mei Ping] (ex-LSM471)	LSM353		Brown SB, Houston, USA	1945	1945	3.1945 // 11.1956	stricken 6.2005
美文 [Mei Wei] (ex-LSM472)	LSM354		Brown SB, Houston, USA	1945	1945	3.1945 // 2.1959	stricken 1973
美漢 [Mei Han] (ex-LSM474)	LSM355		Brown SB, Houston, USA	1945	1945	3.1945 // 2.1959	stricken 1973
美樂 [Mei Le] (ex-LSM363)	LSM356		Brown SB, Houston, USA	1944	1944	1.1945 // 5.1962	stricken 2007

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	520
Displacement full, t	1095
Length, m	59.9 wl 62.0 oa
Breadth, m	10.5
Draught, m	landing: 1.07 fore, 2.13 aft
No of shafts	2
Machinery	4 General Motors diesels
Power, h. p.	2800
Max speed, kts	12.5 - 13.2
Fuel, t	diesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts)	4900 (12)
Armament	1 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 4 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10
Military load	5 medium or 3 heavy tanks or 6 LVT or 9 DUKW, 48 - 54 marines
Electronic equipment	SO radar
Complement	60

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Project history

Former USN LSM type medium landing ships.

Modernizations

1960s, Mei He: - landing capacity; + mines

1990s, all survived: - SO radar; + 1 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 4 x 1 - 12.7/90, CS/UPS-60X radar; superstructure was enlarged

Naval service

Mei Le was sunk by Chinese coastal artillery in September 1958. Mei Hua collided 16.6.1969 with m/s Ta Tung and sunk.