NAVYPEDIA

Ships

No	Name	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
IFS1, 1.1969- LFR1	Carronade		Puget Sound Bridge, Seattle	19.11.1952	26.5.1953	25.5.1955	stricken 5.1973

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1040
Displacement full, t	1500
Length, m	72.3 wl 74.7 oa
Breadth, m	11.9
Draught, m	3.05
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 diesels
Power, h. p.	3100
Max speed, kts	15
Fuel, t	diesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	1 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 30, 2 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 8 x 2 - 127 Mk 105 RL
Electronic equipment	SPS-10, SPQ-6 radars
Complement	162

Standard scale images

Project history

Carronade was a direct successor to the wartime rocket-firing landing ships and craft, built as a result of revived interest in amphibious warfare after Inchon. Design work actually began in 1948, and at one stage a converted DE was considered. Considerations included suitability for mass production and the desire to achieve 20kts (as in other ships of the amphibious convoy then contemplated); the two conflicted, since speeds above about 15kts proved very expensive. In addition, the conflict between a need for large numbers of rockets and the desire to hold down ship size was resolved by placing large numbers of rockets in magazines above the waterline, protected only by 19mm STS. Proposals for a mortar-locating radar, for counter-battery fire, were dropped, the ship being limited to conventional weapons and fire control systems.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.