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LCU-971 Landing Craft Utility
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 LSU-971 Landing Ship Utility (1949 - 1956)
 LCT(6)-971 Landing Craft Tank (1944 - 1949)

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal

LCU-971 was transferred to Greece and named HNS Kimolos (L-147)
Landing Craft Tank (Mark 6):
  • Laid down, 26 November 1943, at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA.
  • Launched, 30 January 1944
  • Delivered, 1 February 1944
  • Placed in service, date unknown, ENS. G.W. Heggie, USNR Officer in Charge (May 1945)
  • During World War II LCT(6)-971 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
    LCT Flotilla Thirteen, LCDR. L. L. Tower, USN (1921)
     LCT Group Thirty-eight, LT. K.R.A. Gross, USNR
  • Placed out of service, date unknown
  • Laid up in reserve
  • Reclassified Landing Ship Utility LSU-971 in 1949
  • Reclassified Landing Craft Utility LCU-971, 15 April 1956
  • Transferred to Greece, circa 1959-1962 and named HNS Kimolos (L-147)
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 143 to 160 t.(lt), 309 to 320 t.(fl)
    Length 119' 1" (ovl.)
    Beam 32' 8"
    Draft
    limiting 3' 9"
    maximum navigation 5'
    Speed 10 kts.
    Range 700 nautical miles at 7 kts.
    Complement
    1 officer
    12 enlisted
    Cargo Capacity 150 short tons
    Armament
    two single 20mm AA gun mounts
    four .50 cal. machine guns
    Armor
    wheelhouse 20lbs
    gun shields 10lbs
    Fuel Capacity Diesel 80 Bbls
    Propulsion
    three Grey Marine 6-71 Diesel engines
    two Diesel-drive 10Kw 120V. D.C. Ships' Service Generators
    three propellers, 675shp
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    LST-731 564k LCT(6)-971 being returned from the Far East aboard USS LST-731 entering a harbor probably in 1946. This is possibly San Francisco Bay . Stephen Eakle, CMSgt USAF for his father Eugene E. Eakle USS LST-731
    Pima County 156k LCT(6)-971 being transported by USS LST-1081 date and location unknown. Ed Zajkowski
    Pima County
    1016108128    		 185k USS LST-1081 transporting LCT(6)-971 on her main deck, date and location unknown Kelly McCrystle for his grandfather Ernie Osburn USS LST-1081
    Pima County
    1016108129    		 216k
    LCT-763 121k LCU-971 and LCU-763 moored pierside, US Naval Shipyard, Boston, MA., date unknown. ©Richard Leonhardt
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