Specifications:
Displacement 200 t.(lt), 375 t.(fl)
Length 134' 9"
Beam 29'
Draft 6' 1"
Speed 11 kts.
Complement 14
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36k | LCU-1658 and LCU-1663 beached at a ramp, date and location unknown. | US Navy photo | |
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49k | LCU-1663 loading/off-loading a small truck, circa 1968, location unknown. US Navy photo |
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42k | LCU-1663 approaching a beach, circa 1968, location unknown. US Navy photo |
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51k | LCU-1663 loading passengers, date and location unknown. US Navy photo |
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24k | LCU-1663 loading/unloading a bus, date and location unknown. US Navy photo |
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42k | LCU-1663 leaving/approaching a ramp with vehicles on board, date and location unknown. US Navy photo |
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35k | LCU-1663 off-loading a tractor across the beach, date and location unknown. US Navy photo |
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48k | LCU-1663 beached, date and location unknown. US Navy photo |
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34k | LCU-1663 approaching a ramp, date and location unknown. US Navy photo |
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45k | LCU-1663 and LCU-1662 approaching a beach, April 1968, location unknown. US Navy photo |
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41k | LCU-1663 and LCU-1662 off-loading a truck and trailer, circa April 1968, location unknown. US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, April 1968 |
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51k | LCU-1663 and LCU-1662 preparing to beach, date and location unknown. US Navy photo |
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51k | LCU-1663 and LCU-1662 beach, date and location unknown. US Navy photo |
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1091k | LCU-1663 and LCU-1664 and a LCM-6 moored forward of USS Fort Snelling (LSD-30) at Genoa, Italy, 5 March 1977. | Photo by Carlo Martinelli | |
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144k | LCU-1663 and LCU-1662 beach during amphibious exercises, date and location unknown. US Navy photo from m"All Hands" magazine, August 1982 |
Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret. | |
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348k | LCU-1663, LCU-1662 and LCU-1553 during amphibious exercises, date and location unknown. US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, August 1982 |
Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret. | |
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586k | Line handlers aboard auxiliary floating dry dock Dynamic (AFDL-6) works with LCU-1663 crew members to pull the craft into dry dock. US Navy photo # 061102-N-4238B-170 Virginia Beach, Va. (Nov. 2, 2006) by MCSN Kelly E. Barnes. |
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256k | LCU-1663, right and LCU-1644, left, assigned to Assault Craft Unit (ACU-2), rehearse storming the beach in Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, 6 June 2006. ACU-2 is embarked aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD-5), underway joining military forces from France, Spain, United Kingdom and Venezuela in the Dutch led Joint-Caribe Lion, 2006 (J-CL06) exercise. In the distance is the Royal Netherlands Landing Platform Ship HNLMS Rotterdam (L800). US Navy photo # 060606-N-8154G-115 by PH3 Jeremy L. Grisham. |
Robert Hurst | |
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154k | LCU-1633 assigned to Naval Beach Unit (NBU-7) prepares to enter the well deck of landing ship dock USS Ashland (LSD-48). US Navy photo # 140311-N-BB269-406 EAST CHINA SEA (March 11, 2014) by MCSN Raymond D. Diaz III). |
Robert M. Cieri | |
There is no DANFS history available for LCU-1663 at NavSource
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U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Navy Fact File - Landing Craft, Mechanized and Utility - LCM/LCU
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