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USAV Chickasaw Bayou (LCU-2012)


International Radio Call Sign:
Alpha - Alpha - Echo - Bravo
AAEB
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, 6 November 1990
  • Assigned to the US Army Transportation Corps, Commissioned USAV Chickasaw Bayou (LCU-2012), 6 November 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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    Chickasaw Bayou
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    Namesake
    Chickasaw Bayou - The Civil War confrontation at Chickasaw Bluffs, Mississippi occurred on 29 December 1862. General William Sherman moved his Union troops south towards Vicksburg, a route that paralleled the Yazoo River. A Confederate force of 12,000 men, under the command of General Martin Smith, occupied a 10-mile line of bluffs along the Yazoo where Sherman's 30,000 Federals were expected to attack. As the Union forces slowly advanced over the swampy ground on 28 December, they received a fearsome bombardment from Confederate artillery on the heights above. While Northern troops made a concerted effort for two days to break through the Confederate defenses, the operation was unsuccessful. General Sherman said, "I reached Vicksburg at the time appointed, landed, assaulted and failed." Federal losses were 1,776; Confederate, only 207. Thus the year ended with the Mississippi River still under Confederate control from Vicksburg to Baton Rouge.
    Photo - This drawing appeared in Harper's Weekly on March 7, 1863. The caption in that periodical says, A scene in one of the battles before Vicksburg. See the associated article appearing in Harper's Weekly. We can see, below, the artists rather exaggerated or uniformed view of the battle which seems to show Union troops achieving the top of the bluffs. In any case, the paper's patriotism is quite apparent
    Map - Operations against Vicksburg and Grants Bayou Operations, November 1862 - April 1863. ©Hal Jespersen    		Tommy Trampp
    Chickasaw Bayou
    302501201    		 217k USAV Chickasaw Bayou (LCU-2012) moored in the Port of Yokohama, 28 April 2018.
    Photos by Hunini Wikipedia Commons    		 Tommy Trampp
    Robert Hurst
    Chickasaw Bayou
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    Chickasaw Bayou
    302501202    		 70k USAV Chickasaw Bayou (LCU-2012) moored in the Port of Yokohama, 26 July 3019
    Photo by Hunini Wikipedia Commons    		 Tommy Trampp
    Chickasaw Bayou
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