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Landing Craft Utility
LCU-1478

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

National Defense Service Medal

LCU-1478 was transferred to Norway and named Tjeldsund
LCU-1466 Class Landing Craft Tank (Modified Version of LCT Mark 5)
  • Built in November 1953 at Marietta Mfg. Point Pleasant, W.V.
  • Launched, date unknown
  • Delivered, date unknown
  • Placed in service, date unknown,
  • Placed out of service, date unknown
  • Transferred to the Royal Norwegian Navy in 1953 with plans to be rebuilt as a minelayer, rebuilding cancelled the same year
  • Placed in service as Norwegian navy LCU-1478 from 1953 to 1971 as a transport in northern Norway
  • named Tjeldsund in November 1963
  • Reassigned to duty with the Naval Defense Command, Eastern Norway from 1971 to 1975, commissioned KNM Tjeldsund
  • Decommissioned in 1975
  • Struck from the Norwegian navy list in 1981 and sold to the Norwegian State Roads Authority for use as a transport for a portable crushing plant
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications
    Displacement 180 t.(lt), 360 t.(fl)
    Length 119' (o.a.)
    Beam 34'
    Draft 6'
    Design Speed 10 kts.
    Range 700 nautical miles at 7 kts.
    Complement 14
    Cargo Capacity 150 short tons
    Armament
    two twin 20mm AA gun mounts, one port, one starboard
    two .50 cal. machine guns
    Armor 2 1/2" wheelhouse, 2" gun shield
    Propulsion 3 Grey Marine Diesels, 3 shafts, Shaft horsepower 675 bhp per shaft
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    LCT-1478
    LCU-1478 104k LCU-1478 waiting on a pier prior to being disassembled for loading aboard SS Charles Lykes, May 1954, location unknown.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, May 1954 issue.    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    LCU-1478 65k Forward section of LCU-1478 being loaded aboard SS Charles Lykes, May 1954, location unknown.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, May 1954 issue.    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    LCU-1478 83k Forward section of LCU-1478 being secured to the main deck of SS Charles Lykes, May 1954, location unknown.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, May 1954 issue.    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    Tjeldsund
    LCU-1478 11k Ex-LCU-1478 in Norwegian naval service as Tjeldsund underway, date and location unknown Norwegian Navy Museum
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    Crew Contact And Reunion Information Web Sites
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
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