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USAV Missionary Ridge (LCU-2028)


International Radio Call Sign:
Alpha - Delta - Mike - Zulu
ADMZ
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, 20 March 1992
  • Assigned to the US Army Transportation Corps, Commissioned USAV Missionary Ridge (LCU-2028), 20 March 1992
  • 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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    Missionary ridge
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    Namesake
    Battle of Missionary Ridge was fought on 25 November 1863, as part of the Chattanooga Campaign of the American Civil War. Following the Union victory in the Battle of Lookout Mountain on 24 November, Union forces in the Military Division of the Mississippi under Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant assaulted Missionary Ridge and defeated the Confederate Army of Tennessee, commanded by Gen. Braxton Bragg, forcing it to retreat to Georgia. (Wikepedia)
    Battle of Missionary Ridge, chromolithograph by Kurz & Allison     		Tommy Trampp
    Missionary ridge
    3025202804    		 99k USAV Missionary Ridge (LCU-2028) underway, during the "America Sails", 2006 competition, location unknown.
    US Army photo from FLICKR submitted by Robby Edwards     		John Spivey
    Missionary ridge
    3025202802    		 228k USAV Missionary Ridge (LCU-2028) arrives at Bridgetown Barbados carrying supplies for Exercise Tradewinds, U.S. 15 June 2012. U.S. soldiers worked with Bajan nationals to move cargo from the ship to solid ground. Tradewinds is a CJCS-approved, USSOUTHCOM-sponsored exercise supporting the theater security cooperation plan, involving security forces from 17 partner nations, primarily from the Caribbean Basin area of responsibility and will also include participants from Canada and the U.S.
    US Army photo # 120615-A-JM688-101 Sgt. Albert Tripolone III     		DVIDS
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    3025202803    		 81k USAV Missionary Ridge (LCU-2028) sailing past Solomons Island, MD. in the Chesapeake Bay, date unknown. Tommy Trampp
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