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LOKOJA tank landing craft (1944/1959)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp. Fate
LCT1213 (ex-LCT1213), 1961- Lokoja     Stockton, Thornaby, UK 5.1944 26.8.1944 9.1944 // 1959 deleted 1978


Technical data


Displacement standard, t350
Displacement full, t640
Length, m

57.1

Breadth, m11.8
Draught, m

1.36 deep load

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Paxman diesels

Power, h. p.

920

Max speed, kts

10

Fuel, t

diesel oil 51

Endurance, nm(kts)1100(8)
Armament

2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 7

Military load

6 40t or 9 30t tanks or 200 troops or 350 t cargo

Electronic equipmentradar
Complement12


Standard scale images


<i>Lokoja </i>1965
Lokoja 1965


Project history

Former British LCT(4) type landing craft.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.