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LT1 small landing ships (1943 - 1945 / 1946-1952)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp. Fate
LT1 (ex-LCT562)     Stockton, Thornaby, UK 12.1942 17.2.1943 3.1943 // 2.1946 returned 11.1946
LT2 (ex-LCT781)     Motherwell, Meadowside, UK   1943 1943 // 1946 returned 11.1946
LT3 (ex-LCT1128)     Tees & Side Bridge, Middlesborough, UK   7.4.1944 1944 // 1946 returned 11.1946
LT4 (ex-LCT1136)     Fairfield, Chepstow, UK   1944 1944 // 1946 returned 11.1946
LT101 (ex-LCT1102) 1950- L9607   Stockton, Thornaby, UK 2.1944 27.4.1944 5.1944 // 1946 stricken 1950
LT102 (ex-LCT1237) 1950- L9608   UK   1944 1944 // 1946 stricken 1950
LT103 (ex-LCT1153) 1950- L9609   Stockton, Thornaby, UK 4.1944 20.6.1944 7.1944 // 1946 stricken 1969
LT104 (ex-LCT1055) 1950- L9610   UK   1943 1943 // 1946 stricken early 1960s
LT105 (ex-LCT1136) 1950- L9611   Stockton, Thornaby, UK 5.1944 30.6.1944 7.1944 // 1946 stricken early 1960s
LT106 (ex-LCT1175) 1950- L9612   UK   1944 1944 // 1946 stricken 1963
L9607 (ex-LCT1258) L9607   UK   1944 1944 // 6.1952 stricken 1963
L9608 (ex-LCT1302) L9608   UK   21.12.1944 1945 // 11.1952 stricken 1963


Technical data


Displacement standard, t350
Displacement full, t640
Length, m

57.1

Breadth, m11.8
Draught, m

1.36 deep load

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Paxman diesels

Power, h. p.

920

Max speed, kts

10

Fuel, t

diesel oil 51

Endurance, nm(kts)1100(8)
Armament

2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk IV

Military load

6 40t or 9 30t tanks or 200 troops or 350 t cargo

Electronic equipmentsome: nav. radar
Complement12


Standard scale images


<i>L9608</i> 1952
L9608 1952


Project history

British-built LCT(4) type craft. Wider and shorter variant of LCT(3). Excessively light-weight hull should be strengthened subsequently.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.