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Ipopliarchos Krystallidis 1979

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
Υποπλοίαρχος Γρηγορόπουλος [Ipopliarchos Grigoropoulos] (ex-LSM45)	L161		Brown SB, Houston, USA	6/1944	30.6.1944	7.1944 // 11.1958	stricken 4.1993
Υποπλοίαρχος Τουρνάς [Ipopliarchos Tournas] (ex-LSM102)	L162		Brown SB, Houston, USA	1944	1944	11.1944 // 11.1958	stricken 1990
Υποπλοίαρχος Δανιόλος [Ipolpiarchos Daniolos] (ex-LSM227)	L163		Dravo, Wilmington, USA	7/1944	9.9.1944	10.1944 // 11.1958	stricken 4.1993
Υποπλοίαρχος Ρουσσέν [Ipopliarchos Roussen] (ex-LSM399)	L164		Charleston N Yd, USA	12/1944	16.1.1945	8.1945 // 11.1958	stricken 2003
Υποπλοίαρχος Κρυσταλλίδης [Ipopliarchos Krystallidis] (ex-LSM541)	L165		Brown SB, Houston, USA	1945	1945	12.1945 // 10.1958	stricken 5.2000
Υποπλοίαρχος Μέρλιν [Ipolpliarchos Merlin] (ex-LSM557)	L166		Charleston N Yd, USA	3/1945	10.4.1945	10.1945 // 10.1958	collision 15.11.1972

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	nav. radar
Complement	60

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Project history

Former USN LSM class ships.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Ipopliarchos Merlin sunk 15.11.1972 in 3nm S of Piraeus after collision with supertanker World Hero.