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"LSG"-type landing ships with gantry crane  (DERWENTDALE) (3, 1941)


Ships


Name Launched // Comm. Builder Tonnage, BRT Dimensions, m Speed, kts Fuel, t Armament // Capacity Fate
Derwentdale 12.4.1941 // 8.1941 Harland & Wolff, Belfast 16750 147.2x18.1x8.4 11.7 1diesel, 3500, diesel oil 728 1 - 120/40 Mk V, 1 - 76/40, 4 - 20/70 // 15 LCM(1), 268 troops oiler 1946
Dewdale 7.2.1941 // 6.1941 Cammell Laird, Birkenhead 16750 147.2x18.1x8.4 11.7 1diesel, 3500, diesel oil 728 1 - 120/40 Mk V, 1 - 76/40, 5 - 20/70 // 15 LCM(1), 257 troops oiler 1946
Ennerdale 27.1.1941 // 7.1941 Swan Hunter, Wallsend 16798 147.2x18.1x8.4 11.5 1VTE, 2700, oil 1450 1 - 102/45 Mk V, 1 - 76/40, 4 - 20/70 // 15 LCM(1), 266 troops oiler 1946


Project history

Transports for delivery LCM landing craft to landing place. There were LSS, LSG, LSD and LSC types. LSG, laid down as tankers and completed as landing craft carriers, were arranged with two gantry cranes (fwd and aft from the central superstructure) for landing craft launching. Gantries can lift one LCM(1) with 10 t of cargo. Ships can carry up to 3000 t of fresh water additionally.

Modernizations

none.

Naval service

No significant events.