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LCI(L)-74 / LCI(R)-74

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - China Service Medal (extended) - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (10)
Bottom Row - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - Philippines Liberation Medal
LCI-1 Class Landing Craft Infantry (Large):
  • Laid down, (date unknown), at Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange, TX.
  • Launched (date unknown)
  • Commissioned USS LCI(L)-74, 2 January 1943
  • Redesignated Landing Craft Rockets LCI(R)-74, 10 July 1945
  • During World War II LCI(L)-74 / LCI(R)-74 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the:
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    Eastern New Guinea operation
    Lae occupation, 4 to 6 September 1943, and 9 to 13 September 1943
    Saidor occupation, 2 to 3 January 1944     		Leyte operation
    Leyte landings, 12 October to 29 November 1944
    Asiatic-Pacific Raids
    Palau, Yap, Ulithi, Woleai raid, 22 September 1943     		Luzon operation
    Lingayen Gulf landing, 4 to 18 January 1945
    Bismarck Archipelago operation
    Cape Gloucester, New Britain, 25 to 27 December 1943     		Borneo operation
    Tarakan Island operation, 27 April to 5 May 1945
    Hollandia operation, 21 to 25 April 1944 Consolidation and capture of Southern Philippines
    Palawan Island landings, 28 February to 3 March 1945
    Visayan Island landings, 18 to 19 March 1945
    Mindanao Island landings, 17 to 23 April 1945
    Western New Guinea operation
    Toem-Wakde-Sarmi area operation, 17 May 1944
    Biak Island operation, 27 to 28 May, and 29 May to 1 June 1944     		Manila Bay-Bicol operation
    Nasugbu, 31 January to 2 February 1945

  • Following World War II LCI(R)-74 performed occupation duty in the Far East including service in China, from 29 September to 14 October 1945;
  • Decommissioned, (date unknown);
  • Struck from the Naval Register in 1946
  • Transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal, 8 March 1948
  • Sold for conversion to a towboat, Official Number (258900), date unknown
  • Purchased by Tidewater Barge Line's, Vancouver, WA., renamed Beulah H. Russell;
  • Current Disposition, believed to be in commercial service on the Columbia and Snake Rivers'
  • LCI(L)-74 / LCI(R)-74 earned ten battle stars for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 216 t.(light), 234 t.(landing), 389 t.(loaded)
    Length 158' 5 1/2"
    Beam 23' 3"
    Draft Light 3'1½" mean, Landing, 2' 8" forward, 4' 10"aft, Loaded, 5' 4" forward 5' 11" aft
    Speed 16 kts (max.), 14 kts maximum continuous
    LCI(L) Complement 4 Officers, 24 Enlisted
    LCI(R) Complement 3 Officers, 31 Enlisted
    LCI(L) Troop Capacity 6 Officers, 182 Enlisted
    LCI(L) Cargo Capacity 75 tons
    Armor 2" plastic splinter protection on gun turrets, conning tower and pilot house
    Endurance 4,000 miles at 12 kts, loaded, 500 miles at 15 kts; and 110 tons of fuel
    LCI(L) Armament five single 20mm guns two forward, one amidship, two aft, on some LCIs two .50 cal machine guns were added
    LCI(R) Armament one 40mm gun, four 20mm guns, two .50 cal machine guns, six 5" rocket launchers
    Fuel Capacity 130 tons, lube oil 200 gal.
    Propulsion two sets of 4 GM diesels, 4 per shaft, BHP 1,600, twin variable pitch propellers
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    LCI(L)-74 63k LCI(R)-74 firing rockets, date and place unknown. One of the best known photos of a rocket-firing LCI. Photo from the USS LCI National Association's newsletter "The Elsie Item", June 2002. Ardie Hunt
    The history for LCI(L)-74 / LCI(R)-74 is from USS LCI "Landing Craft Infantry", Vol. II. Paducah, Kentucky: Turner Publishing Company, © 1995. (ISBN 1-56311-262-0)
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
    Fleet Reserve Association
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    USS Landing Craft Infantry National Association
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