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Landing Craft Utility
LCU-1655

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

National Defense Service Medal
LCU-1646 Class Landing Craft Utility:
  • Laid down, 6 May 1970, at Defoe Shipbuilding Co., Bay City, MI.
  • Launched, 20 October 1970
  • Placed in service with Assault Craft Unit Two (ACU-2), NAB Little Creek, VA.
  • Status, active
    Specifications:
    Displacement 200 t.(lt), 375 t.(fl)
    Length 134' 9"
    Beam 29'
    Draft 6' 1"
    Speed 11 kts.
    Complement 14
    Armament
    four .50 cal. machine guns
    two M60 machine guns
    one M203 grenade launcher
    twelve M16 rifles
    two 9mm pistols
    Load 170 tons
    Military Lift three M1A1 tanks, 10 LAVs or 400+ troops, 125 tons of cargo.
    Radar Navigation: LN 66 or SPS-53; I band.
    Propulsion
    two Detroit 12V-71 Diesel engines
    twin shafts, 680shp sustained, Kort nozzles
    Fuel Capacity 3220 gals.
    Range 1,200nm at eight knots
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    LCU-1655 61k LCU-1655 beached, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo    		  
    LCU-1655 36k LCU-1655 underway astern of an unidentified LPD, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo    		  
    LCU-1655 31k LCU-1655 beaching, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo    		  
    LCU-1655 32k LCU-1655 beaching while landing troops, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo    		  
    LCU-1655
    1018165506    		 65k LCU-1655 underway,probably in waters off France, 12 January 1975.
    Photographiques Marius BAR, Toulon, France    		 Tommy Trampp
    LCU-1655 166k LCU-1655 beached in Guatemala, date unknown.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, June 1976.    		  
    LCU-1655
    1018165507    		 176k LCU-1655 LCU 1655 entering the well deck of Amphibious Dock Landing Ship USS Whidbey Island (LSD-41), 17 July 2016. Whidbey Island is deployed with the Wasp Amphibious Ready Group to support maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations.
    U.S. Navy photo # 160717-N-TI017-100 by MC2 Nathan R. McDonald    		 Robert Hurst
    There is no DANFS history available for LCU-1655 at NavSource
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    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
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