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USAV Calaboza (LCU-2009)


International Radio Call Sign:
Alpha - Alpha - Delta - Yankee
AADY
Runnymede Class Landing Craft Utility:
  • Laid down, date unknown, at Trinity-Moss Point Marine, Escatawpa, MS,
  • Launched, date unknown
  • Delivered to the US Army Quartermaster Corps, 23 July 1990
  • Assigned to the US Army Transportation Corps, Commissioned USAV Calaboza (LCU-2009), 23 July 1990
  • Status, Active
    Specifications:
    Displacement 575 t.
    Length 174'
    Beam 42'
    Draft 9' light
    Speed
    Light, 12kts per hr
    Loaded, 10 kts per hr
    Range 4,500 nm
    Complement
    Two Warrant Officers
    Eleven Enlisted
    Cargo Capacity 350 short tons
    Largest Boom Capacity unknown
    Armament unknown
    Fuel Capacity unknown
    Fuel Consumption 26 gal. per hour
    Propulsion
    two bow thrusters
    two turbo charged Cummins V16 KTA50-M 1250hp diesel engines
    two propeller shafts, 2,500 bhp

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    Calaboza
    302500901
    93k
    Namesake
    Calaboza - Calaboza City Central Venezuela, also Calaboza, lies along the Guarico River 110 miles south southwest of Caracas on a piedmont plain between the mountains and the Llanos, founded in 1695. Calaboza was formerly an administrative center. It gained prominence in the 1950’s as the headquarters of the Guarico River Reclamation Project, which is concerned with irrigation, flood control, and the cattle industry. The city has benefited from the development of a vast rice-producing region and from the construction of modern transport facilities which link it to San Fernando de Apure, the livestock center to the south and to San Juan de los Morros to the North.
    Tommy Trampp
    Calaboza
    302500903
    51k USAV Calaboza (LCU-2009) underway at Yokohama, Japan, 16 April 2014.
    Photo ©Dexter, Marine Traffic.com
    Tommy Trampp
    Calaboza
    302500904
    76k USAV Calaboza (LCU-2009) moored pierside at Yokohama, Japan, 16 April 2014.
    Photo ©Kihsts, Marine Traffic.com
    Tommy Trampp
    Calaboza
    302500905
    182k A HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter, assigned to the 33rd Rescue Squadron, 18th Wing, hovers over USAV Calaboza (LCU-2009), 10th Support Group, during joint training off the coast of Okinawa, Japan, 10 November 2021. The exercise allowed both Army and Air Force units to gain the capability of medically evacuating patients off of the LCUs from sea.
    US Army photo by Staff Sgt. Christopher Schmiett
    Tommy Trampp
    Calaboza
    302500906
    127k Two HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopters, assigned to the 33rd Rescue Squadron, 18th Wing, fly over USAV Calaboza (LCU-2009), 10th Support Group, during joint training off the coast of Okinawa, Japan, 10 November 2021. The exercise allowed both Army and Air Force units to gain the capability of medically evacuating patients off of the LCUs from sea.
    US Army photo by Staff Sgt. Christopher Schmiett
    Tommy Trampp
    Calaboza
    302500902
    96k Marines with the Maritime Raid Force, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, fast rope from a UH-1Y Venom onto USAV Calaboza (LCU-2009) off the coast of Naval Base White Beach, Okinawa, 2 December 2021. Collaborating with the 10th Support Group provided opportunity for the Marines to meet certification requirements for Visit, Board, Search and Seizure (VBSS) training, which requires Marines to fast rope onto a vessel at sea. The training was conducted by the Expeditionary Operations Training Group, III Marine Expeditionary Force.
    U.S. Navy photo # 2022-12-16 142115 MC2 Jessica Ann Hattell
    Tommy Trampp
    Calaboza
    302500907
    112k USAV Calaboza (LCU-2009) moored pierside at Yokohama, Japan, January 2023.
    Photo by Minoru Tanaka - Flickr
    John Spivey

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