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USS LC(FF)-504
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USS LCI(L)-504 (1943 - 1944)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Quebec - Whiskey - Hotel
NQWH

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)

LCI-351 Class Landing Craft Infantry (Large):

Laid down, 22 October 1943, at New Jersey Shipbuilding Corp., Barber, N.J.

Launched, 18 November 1943

Commissioned USS LCI(L)-504, 23 November 1943, LTjg. H.E. Twietmeyer USN in command

USS LCI(L)-504 was redesignated Landing Craft (Flotilla Flagship) USS LC(FF)-504, 31 December 1944

During World War II LCI(L)-504 / LC(FF)-504 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
LC(FF) Flotilla Twenty-Three, LCDR. R. H. Brazeal;
LC(FF) Group Sixty-Eight, LT. O. G. Howell;
LC(FF) Division One Hundred Thirty-Five

Following World War II USS LC(FF)-504 performed occupation duty in the Far East

Decommissioned, date unknown

Laid up in the Reserve Fleet, Florida Group, Green Cove Springs, FL. in March 1946

Struck from the Naval Register, 1956

Final Disposition, fate unknown

Specifications:
Displacement 246 t.(light), 264 t. (landing), 419 t.(loaded)
Length 158' 5½"
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

Complement

4 Officers

24 Enlisted

Troop Capacity

6 Officers

182 Enlisted

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

Fuel Capacity

Diesel 130 tons

lube oil 200 gal

Propulsion

two sets of four General Motors Diesel engines, four per shaft, BHP 1,600

twin variable pitch propellers

Size	Image Description	Source
49k	USS LC(FF)-504 under way in convoy in the Atlantic Ocean in 1944.	Submitted by Brian S. Myers from the collection of his father John H. Myers SM1/c USS LC(FF)-504
49k	USS LC(FF)-504 crew member Tom Hayden, Atlantic Ocean, 1944.	Submitted by Brian S. Myers from the collection of his father John H. Myers SM1/c USS LC(FF)-504
36k	USS LC(FF)-504 signal bridge gang, Tom Hayden, John Myers and S. Turner.	Submitted by Brian S. Myers from the collection of his father John H. Myers SM1/c USS LC(FF)-504
42k	USS LC(FF)-504 crew member NIck Morano Manning one of the ship's 20mm AA guns.	Submitted by Brian S. Myers from the collection of his father John H. Myers SM1/c USS LC(FF)-504
33k	USS LC(FF)-504 at sea, date and location unknown. Note the LST off in the distance.	Submitted by Brian S. Myers from the collection of his father John H. Myers SM1/c USS LC(FF)-504
33k	USS LC(FF)-504 crewman one of the ship's 20mm AA gun mounts, date and location unknown.	Submitted by Brian S. Myers from the collection of his father John H. Myers SM1/c USS LC(FF)-504
33k	USS LC(FF)-504 crewmen on ladder leading to signal bridge atop the conning tower, date and location unknown.	Submitted by Brian S. Myers from the collection of his father John H. Myers SM1/c USS LC(FF)-504
22k	USS LC(FF)-504 crew man working on deck, date and location unknown.	Submitted by Brian S. Myers from the collection of his father John H. Myers SM1/c USS LC(FF)-504