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USS LSIL-699
ex
 USS LCI(L)-699 (1944 - 1949)


International Radio Call Sign:
November - Papa - Yankee - Tango
 NPYT
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (2) - World War II Victory Medal - Philippine Liberation Medal

USS LSIL-699 was transferred to France and later to South Vietnam
LCI-351 Class Landing Craft Infantry (Large):
  • Laid down, date unknown, George Lawley & Sons, Neponset, MA.
  • Launched,(date unknown
  • Commissioned USS LCI(L)-699, 25 June 1944
  • During World War II USS LCI(L)-699 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific theater and participated in the following campaigns:

    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    Leyte operation
    Leyte landings, 28 and 29 November 1944     		Borneo operation
    Tarakan Island, 27 April to 5 May 1945
    Balikpapan operation, 26 June to 6 July 1945

  • Reclassified Landing Ship Infantry Large LSIL-699, 28 February 1949
  • Decommissioned, date unknown. and laid up in the Reserve Fleet
  • Transferred under terms of the Mutual Defense Assistance Program to France for use in French Indo-China, 8 January 1951,
  • redesignated RFS LSIL 9033
  • Returned to US Naval custody,(date unknown
  • Transferred to South Vietnam in 1956
  • Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown
  • USS LCI(L)-699 earned two battle stars for World War II service
  • 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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    LCS(L)-698 197k Ex-USS LSIL-699 now in French Naval service as RFS LSIL9033 in the Brown Water Navy Force (French DINASSAUT) on the Red River in North Vietnam along with RFS LSIL 9029 ex-USS LCIL-698. Photo by Jean Claude Fortier., submitted by Georges Demichelis.RFS LSIL9029
    LSD-12 66k RFS LSIL9033 being transported from Haiphong to Saigon, French Indochina, in the well deck of TCD Foudre(L646) in December 1954. Georges Demichelis
    The history for LCI(L)-699 is from USS LCI "Landing Craft Infantry", Vol. II. Paducah, Kentucky: Turner Publishing Company, © 1995. (ISBN 1-56311-262-0)
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    USS Landing Craft Infantry National Association
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