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USS LCI(L)-819


International Radio Call Sign:
November - Whiskey - Romeo - Romeo

NWRR
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 (2) - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Medal (with Asia clasp)


LCI-351 Class Landing Craft Infantry (Large):
  • Laid down, 22 August 1944, at New Jersey Ship Building Co., Barber, N.J.
  • Launched, 21 September 1944
  • Commissioned USS LCI(L)-819, 27 September 1944, LTjg. E. H. Weigel (May 1945)
  • During World War II USS LCI(L)-819 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
    LCI Flotilla Nineteen, LCDR. E. C. Floger;
    LCI Group Fifty-Six, LTjg. C. M. Reese USNR;
    LCI Division One Hundred Twelve and participated in the following campaigns:

    Asiatic-Pacific Campaign
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    Okinawa Gunto operation
    Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 28 April to 30 June 1945
    Minesweeping operations-Pacific
    Kochi-Shikoku (Honshu area), 8 to 16 September 1945
    Nagoya (Honshu area), 28 September to 25 October 1945

  • Following World War II USS LCI(L)-819 was assigned to Occupation service in the Far East from 2 to 16 September 1945
  • Decommissioned, 1 November 1946
  • Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown
  • USS LCI(L)-819 earned two battle star for World War II service
  • Transferred to the Maritime Commission, 23 January 1948
  • Registered in 1950 by Hugh E. Shaw, Portland OR. as the freighter Nomad
  • Registered in 1956 by the S. E. Alaska Marine Transport Co. Seattle, WA., as freighter Nomad
  • Registered in 1957 by Peninsula Packers of Seattle as freighter Nomad
  • Registered in 1960 by the Ajax Co., Seattle, WA. as freighter Nomad
  • Out of documentation in 1969
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 236 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 knots; and 110 tons of fuel
    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 860 Bbls
    lube oil 200 gal
    Propulsion
    two sets of 4 General Motors 6051 series 71 Diesel engines, 4 per shaft
    single General Motors Main reduction gears
    two Diesel-drive 30Kw 120V D.C. Ship's Service Generators
    twin variable pitch propellers, 2,320shp

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    LCI(L)-819
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    214k USS LCI(L)-819 entering San Francisco Bay passing through the Golden Gate. LCI(L)-819 had departed Saipan in the Mariana Islands after Christmas and arrived in San Francisco Bay in January 1946 docking at Sausalito, in Marin County, across the Golden Gate from San Francisco. Dan K. Howe for his father Clark M. Howe, S1/c

    The history for USS LCI(L)-819 is from USS LCI "Landing Craft Infantry", Vol. II. Paducah, Kentucky: Turner Publishing Company, © 1995. (ISBN 1-56311-262-0)
    Commanding Officers
    01LTjg. Weigel, E. H.27 September 1944 - ?

    The history for LCI(L)-819 is from USS 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

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