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Mallard (MHC 30)
ex-Mallard (AMCU 30)
ex-LSI(L)-963
LSI(L)-581 Class Landing Ship Infantry (Large) / AMCU-7 Class Coastal Minesweeper (Underwater Locator): Laid down, 25 February 1944 by the Consolidated Steel Corp., Ltd., Orange, TX; Launched, 20 March 1944; Commissioned USS LSI(L)-963, 16 May 1944; Decommissioned in 1946 and placed in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet at Green Cove Springs, FL; Named Mallard and reclassified a Coastal Minesweeper (Underwater Locator), AMCU-30, 7 March 1952; Recommissioned Mallard (AMCU 30) in June 1952; Conversion to AMCU-30 began, 15 December 1953 at the Charleston Naval Shipyard, Charleston, SC; Conversion completed, 15 June 1954; Decommissioned in July 1954; Reclassified a Coastal Minehunter, MHC-30, 1 February 1955; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 January 1960; Sold, 30 June 1960 to Randolph Mattson. Fate unknown.
LCI Specifications: Displacement 216 t.(light), 234 t.(landing), 389 t.(loaded); Length 158' 5½"; Beam 23' 3"; Draft, Light 3'1½" mean, Landing, 2' 8" forward, 41'10" aft, Landing, 5'4"forward, 5'11" aft; Speed 16 kts (max.), 14 kts maximum continuous; Complement two officer, 21 enlisted; Troop Capacity, six Officers, 182 Enlisted; Cargo Capacity, 75 tons; Armor, 2" plastic splinter protection on gun turrets, conning tower and pilot house; Endurance 4,000 miles at 12 kts, loaded, 500 miles at 15 knots; and 110 tons of fuel; Armament four single 20mm guns one forward, one amidship, two aft, later added two .50 cal. machine guns; Fuel Capacity, 130 tons, lube oil 200 gal.; Propulsion two sets of four General Motors diesels, 4 per shaft, 1,600 bhp, twin variable pitch propellers.
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