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Harbor Utility Craft - YFU-31
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 Landing Craft Utility - LCU-1159 (1958)
 Landing Craft Ship - LSU-1159 (1949 - 1958)
 Landing Craft Tank - LCT(6)-1159 (1944 - 1949)

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 - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - National Defense Service Medal - Philippines Liberation Medal
Landing Craft Tank (Mark 6) / YFU-1 Class Harbor Utility Craft: Landing Craft Tank (Mark 6):
  • Laid down, 17 May 1944, at Bison Shipbuilding Corp, North Tonawanda, N.Y.
  • Launched, 28 May 1944
  • Delivered, 31 May 1944
  • Assembled and Placed in service, date unknown, ENS. C.F. Rutter USNR Officer in Charge
  • During World War II LCT(6)-1159 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
    LCT Flotilla Thirty-One, LCDR. C.V. Dilley USNR
     LCT Group Ninety-One, LT. R.R. Muehlbach, USNR and served at New Guinea, the Philippines and Okinawa
  • Following World War II LCT(6)-1159 was assigned to Occupation Service in the Far East from 2 September 1945 to 12 March 1946
  • Redesignated Landing Ship Utility LSU-1159 in 1949
  • Redesignated Landing Craft Utility LCU-1159, 15 April 1952
  • Reclassified Harbor Utility Craft YFU-31, 18 May 1958
  • Placed out of service, date unknown
  • Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 143 to 160 t.(lt), 309 to 320 t.(fl)
    Length 119' 1" (ovl.)
    Beam 32' 8"
    Draft
    limiting 3' 9"
    maximum navigation 5'
    Speed 10 kts.
    Range 700 nautical miles at 7 kts.
    Complement
    1 officer
    12 enlisted
    Cargo Capacity 150 short tons
    Armament
    two single 20mm AA gun mounts
    four .50 cal. machine guns
    Armor
    wheelhouse 20lbs
    gun shields 10lbs
    Fuel Capacity Diesel 80 Bbls
    Propulsion
    three Grey Marine 6-71 Diesel engines
    two Diesel-drive 10Kw 120V. D.C. Ships' Service Generators
    three propellers, 675shp
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    LCT-1159
    LST-916
    1016091605    		 305k Aerial view of USS LST-916 underway in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of North Carolina, 5 July 1944. LST-916 is carrying three disassembled LCTs on her deck, LCT-1049, LCT-1158 and LCT-1159. The LCTs were unloaded in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and assembled by their crews before beginning active service.
    US National Archives photo # 80-G-241154, a US Navy photo taken by an airship assigned to ZP-12 out of Weeksville, N.C.    		 Rick Davis
    LCT-1194 488k From left to right LCT(6)1156, LCT(6)-1159, LCT(6)-1193, and LCT(6)-1194 along with the rest of LCT Flotilla 31 underway in Casiguran Bay, Luzon, Philippine Islands in 1945.
    Photo by Donald Berton Dale RM3/c LCT-1195    		 Bernard Urbanik
    LCT-1080
    1018108001    		 186k From left to right: LCT(6)-1080, LCT(6)-1159, and LCT(6)-1193 moored, at Wakajima, Japan, late 1945. Photo taken from LCT(6)-743. Jacob Lipiew
    LSU-1159
    LCT-638/1159 74k LCU-1159 and an unidentified YTL moored at the "inner basin" Naval Station Subic Bay, Republic of the Philippines, circa 1954-56. Photo was taken from the conning tower of LSU-638 Harvey Kimbro LCU-638
    There is no history for LCT(6)-1159 / LSU-1159 / LCU-1159 / YFU-31 available at NavSource
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information Web Sites
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    World War II LCT Flotillas web site
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