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Harbor Utility Craft - YFU-46
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 Landing Craft Utility - LCU-1430 (1956 - 1958)
 Landing Craft Ship - LSU-1430 (1949 - 1956)
 Landing Craft Tank - LCT(6)-1430 (1944 - 1949)

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 - National Defense Service Medal
Landing Craft Tank (Mark 6):
  • Laid down, 4 September 1944, at Bison Shipbuilding Corp, North Tonawanda, N.Y.
  • Launched, 10 September 1944
  • Delivered, 16 September 1944
  • Placed in service, date unknown, ENS. R.P. Brunner USNR Officer in Charge (May 1945)
  • During World War II LCT-1430 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
    LCT Flotilla Thirty-Eight, LCDR. M. R. Doherty USNR;
     LCT Group One Hundred-Thirteen, LT. R. Berkemeyer USNR
  • Placed out of service, date unknown
  • Redesignated Landing Ship Utility LSU-1430 in 1949
  • Redesignated Landing Craft Utility LCU-1430, 15 April 1956
  • Reclassified Harbor Utility Craft YFU-46, 18 May 1958
  • Struck from the Naval Service, 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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    LSU-1430
    LCT-1430 87k LSU-1430 unloading tanks at Kalsin Bay, Kodiak, AK. during Operation Micon 49, 11 February 1949.
    US National Archives Photo # USN 398342, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives    		 Rich Fox, World War II LCT Flotillas web site
    LSU-1458
    1018145802    		 197k Camp Pendleton, CA. - Marines of the 1st Marine Division FMF embark aboard LSU-1458 (right) and LSU-1430 (left) which took them to a Landing Ship Dock (LSD) further off shore during the Embarkation Phase of Demon III Operation in May, 1950.
    U.S. National Archives Identifier 74247077, Local Identifier 127-GR-220-A1671, U.S. Marine Corps Photo# A1671    		 David Upton
    LCT-1430
    1018143003    		 300k Marines of the 1st Provisional Marine Brigade load aboard LSU-1430 at Camp Pendleton, CA. to transport them to Navy Transports waiting off shore and thence to the Far East to add strength to the Far Eastern Command. (Korean Alert).
    U.S. National Archives Identifer 74247029, Local Identifier 127-GR-220-A1130, U.S. Marine Corp Photo # A1130     		David Upton
    LCT-1430 65k LSU(6)-1430 maneuvering along the port side of USS Carter Hall (LSD-3) in preparation for entering Carter Hall's well, San Diego Bay, Spring-1951. Bob Allport RD2 USS Carter Hall 1950-54
    There is no history record available for LCT(6)-1430 / LSU-1430 / LCI-1430 / YFU-45 at Navsource
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