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USS LCI(G)-463
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 USS LCI(L)-463 (1943 - 1944)


International Radio Call Sign:
November - Quebec - Lima - Whiskey
 NQLW
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive) - Navy Unit Commendation - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (3) - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp).
LCI-351 Class Landing Craft Infantry (Large):
  • Laid down, 3 August 1943, at New Jersey Shipbuilding Co., Barber, N.J.
  • Launched, 9 September 1943
  • Commissioned as USS LCI(L)-463, 17 September 1943
  • Designation changed to Landing Craft Infantry (Guns) LCI(G)-463, 15 June 1944
  • During World War II USS LCI(L)-463 / LCI-G)-463 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaigns:
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaigns and Dates Campaigns and Dates
    Marianas operation
    Capture and occupation of Saipan 15 June to 28 July 1944     		Western Caroline Islands operation;
    Capture and occupation of southern Palau Islands, 6 September to 14 October 1944
    Tinian capture and occupation
    24 to 28 July 1944     		 

  • Following World War II LCI(G)-463 performed Navy Occupation Service in the Far East from 11 September to 2 December 1945
  • Decommissioned, date unknown
  • Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown
  • Final Disposition, sold 5 December 1946, fate unknown
  • USS LCI(G)-463 received three battle stars for World War II service in addition to the Navy Unit Commendation as a member of LCI(G) Flotilla 3 (31 January to 28 July 1944) for Occupation of Kwajalein and Eniwetok Atolls in the Marshall Islands and Capture and occupation of Saipan, Guam and Tinian in the Marianas
    Specifications:
    Displacement 246 t.(light), 264 t. (landing), 419 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(G) Complement 5 Officers, 65 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, one bow mounted, one each port and starboard forward of wheelhouse, one each port and starboard aft of wheelhouse, on some LCIs two .50 cal machine guns were added
    LCI(G) Armament two 40mm guns, four 20mm guns, six .50cal machine guns, ten MK7 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)-463 349k USS LCI(L)-463 underway, 19 October 1943, place unknown.
    US Navy photo from "U.S. Warships of World War 2" by Paul H. Silverstone.    		 Mike Green
    LCI-463 84k USS LCI(G)-463 grounded at Buckner Bay, Okinawa, as a result of "Typhoon Louise," 9 October 1945. Anita Robinson for her father Lewis G. Brook S/1c V-6 USNR
    LCI-463/337 62k USS LCI(G)-463 and USS LCI(L)-337 high and dry at Buckner Bay, Okinawa, after the 9 October 1945 typhoon.  
    Nestor 444k USS LCI(G)-463 right foreground, USS Nestor (ARB-6) at center left (background) with USS APL-14 astern of her. In the foreground, USS LCI(R)-337 (center). All were ravaged and run aground by Typhoon Louis at Buckner Bay, Okinawa, in October 1945.
    US Navy photo    		 Donn Cuson
    The history for USS LCI(L) / LCI(G)-463 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 - Navy Log
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    USS Landing Craft Infantry National Association
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