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Landing Craft Tank - LCT-743
Landing Ship Utility - LSU-743
Landing Craft Utility - LCU-743
Harbor Utility Craft YFU-52

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
Bottom Row - National Defense Service Medal - Vietnam Service Medal (1) - Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Landing Craft Tank (Mark 6) / YFU-1 Class Harbor Utility Craft:
  • Laid down 20 February 1944 at Quincy Barge Builders, Quincy. IL.
  • Launched 14 March 1944
  • Delivered 10 April 1944
  • During World War II LCT-743 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater LCT Flotilla 24, Group 71, LCDR. F. Carmondy, in command, at New Guinea, the Philippines and Okinawa
  • Place out of service (date unknown)
  • Redesignated Landing Ship Utility, LSU-743 in 1949
  • Redesignated Landing Craft Utility LCU-743, 15 April 1952
  • Reclassified as a Harbor Utility Craft (YFU-52), 18 Mary 1956
  • YFU-52 saw service in Vietnam during the Vietnam War
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping 1 November 1972 by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 143 to 160 t.(lt), 309 to 320 t.(fl)
    Length 119' 1" (ovl)
    Beam 32' 8"
    Draft 5'; (max)
    Speed 10 kts.
    Range 700 nautical miles at 7 kts.
    Complement 14
    Cargo Capacity 150 short tons
    Armament
    LCT
    two single 20mm AA gun mounts
    four .50 cal. machine guns
    Armor 20lbs wheelhouse, 10lbs gun shield
    Propulsion 3 Grey Marine Diesels, 3 propellers, Shaft horsepower 225 per shaft
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    LCT-743
    LCT-743 34k LCT-743 moored pierside, date and location unknown. .
    YFU-52
    LCT-743 126k YFU-52 moored at Sa Huynh, South Vietnam, 1969. Tom Lanagan YFU-79
    There is no DANFS history for LCT-743 / YFU-52 available at NavSource
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    Last Updated 8 February 2008