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HMC LCH-317
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 HM LCH-317
LCI(L)-317


LCI(L)-317 was transferred to the United Kingdom under terms of the Lend-Lease Act
LCI-1 Class Landing Craft Infantry (Large):
  • Laid down in 1943 at Todd & Eyrie, Barber, N.J.
  • Launched in 1943
  • LCI(L)-317 never saw active service in the US Navy
  • Transferred under terms of the Lend-Lease Act to the United Kingdom and commissioned into the Royal Navy as HM-LCI(L)-317, 16 February 1943
  • Converted to a Landing Craft Headquarters LCH the British version of the US Flotilla Flag Ship LC(FF)
  • Turned over to the Canadian Navy for the Invasion of Normandy
  • Commissioned into the Canadian Navy as HMC LCH-317 in 1944
  • Returned to US Naval custody, 13 April 1946
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 5 June 1946
  • Transferred to the State Department for disposal and sold 13 February 1948
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 236 t.(light), 264 t.(landing), 419 t.(loaded)
    Length 158' 5½"
    Beam 23' 3"
    Draft
    Light, 3'1½" mean
    Landing, 2' 8" forward, 4' 10" aft
    Loaded, 5' 4" forward, 5' 11" aft
    Speed
    16 kts (max.)
    14 kts maximum continuous
    Complement
    4 officers
    24 enlisted
    Troop Capacity
    6 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
    five single 20mm guns, one bow mounted, one each port and starboard forward of wheelhouse, one each port and starboard aft of wheelhouse
    on some LCIs two .50 cal machine guns were added
    Fuel Capacity
    Diesel 860 Bbls
    lube oil 200 gal
    Propulsion
    two sets of 4 General Motors 6051 series 71 Diesel engines, 4 per shaft
    single General Motors Main reduction gears
    two Diesel-drive 30Kw 120V D.C. Ship's Service Generators
    twin variable pitch propellers, 2,320shp
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    LCI(L)-120 1357k British LCI Flotilla at Messina, Sicily loading troops of the Northants Regiment to cross the Straits of Messina and land near the tip of Reggio, Calabria, Italy on 3 September 1943. LCI(L)'s present include:
    HM LCI(L)-120
    HM LCI(L)-244
    HM LCI(L)-286
    HM LCI(L)-291
    HM LCI(L)-300
    HM LCH-317
    HM LCI(L)-172
    HM LCI(L)-136
    HM LCI(L)-169
    HM LCI(L)-241
    HM LCI(L)-292 and
    HM LCI(L)-271
    		 Jerry Gilmartin MMC(SW) USN Ret. Secretary AFMM LCI 713, Curator PT-658 Save the PT Boat Inc, courtesy Dennis Blocker LCI National Association Historian
    LCI(L)-169 1331k
    LCI(L)-271 1610k
    LCI(L)-317 96k Infantry from the 51st Highland Division wade ashore from HM LCH-317, during the Invasion of Sicily, 10 July 1943. Photo taken by Sgt Frederick Wackett, of No 2 Army Film & Photographic Unit. Photo No. 4194. From the collections of the Imperial War Museums. Part of War Office Second World War Official Collection. Robert Hurst
    LCI(L)-100/317 77k HMC LCH-100 and HMC LCH-317 moored at Southampton amongst a multitude of landing craft prior to D-Day, June 1944. Robert Hurst
    The history for LCI(L)-317 is from USS LCI "Landing Craft Infantry", Vol. II. Paducah, Kentucky: Turner Publishing Company, © 1995. (ISBN 1-56311-262-0)
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