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Contributed by ENCS Jerry Patterson USN Ret. LCU-1624

Landing Craft Utility
LCU-1614

International Radio Call Sign:
November - November - Foxtrot - Lima NNFL

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon - Presidential Unit Citation
Second Row - Navy Unit Commendation National Defense Service Medal - Vietnam Service Medal (12)
Third Row - Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross Unit Citation - Republic of Vietnam Civil Actions Unit Citation - Vietnam Campaign Medal
Personnel Awards

Purple Heart (Richard C. Wyatt, SN - KIA, 5 May 1968)

LCU-1610 Class Landing Craft Utility:

Laid down, date unknown,at Gunderson Bros. Portland, OR.

Launched, date unknown

Delivered in 1959 and placed in service as LCU-1614

During the Vietnam war LCU-1614 participated in the following campaigns:

Campaign and Dates	Campaign and Dates
Vietnam War Campaigns
Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase II 1 July 1966 to 31 May 1967	Tet/69 Counteroffensive 23 February to 8 June 1969
Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase III 1 June 1967 to 29 January 1968	Vietnam Summer-Fall 1969 9 June to 31 October 1969
Tet Counteroffensive 30 January to 1 April 1968	Vietnam Winter-Spring 1970 1 November 1969 to 30 April 1970
Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase IV 2 April to 30 June 1968	Sanctuary Counteroffensive 1 May to 30 June 1970
Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase V 1 July to 1 November 1968	Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase VII 1 July 1970 to 30 June 1971
Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase VI 2 November 1968 to 22 February 1969	Consolidation I 1 July to 30 September 1971

Placed out of service and struck from the Naval Register, date unknown

LCU-1614 earned at twelve campaign stars for Vietnam War service

Sold for commercial service to General Propulsion, Florida

Resold in 2004 to Coastal Villages Seafoods, Western Alaska

Modified for service as a fish tender and freight vessel, bottom replaced, main engines replaced with two John Deere Diesels, new generators, and new cranes, renamed MV Kelly Mae

Last Known Disposition, in service as a fish tender and freight vessel for Coastal Villages, 2006

Specifications: (As Built)
Displacement 200 t.(lt), 375 t.(fl)
Length 134' 9"
Beam 29'
Draft 6' 1"
Speed 11 kts.
Complement 12 to 14 Enlisted
Armament two .50 cal machine guns
Propulsion four Detroit Diesel engines 1,000 bhp, (250 bhp each engine), two shafts
Fuel Capacity 3220 gals
Range 1,200 nm at eight knots

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
LCU-1614
	75k	*LCU-1614* underway in 1967, location unknown. US Navy photo from the 1967-68 edition of "Jane's Fighting Ships."	Robert Hurst
	1447k	*LCU-1614* beached at a ramp with *YFU-82*, an unidentified YFU, and a mine damaged LCM-8. The LCM struck a mine in the Qua Viet River, circa 1969-70.
	85k	*LCU-1614* and *YFU-75* moored at a pier in Da Nang, South Vietnam, circa January 1968 to February 1970.	Steve Wetzler
	129k	*LCU-1614* under way in harbor in South Vietnam, March 1970. Photo courtesy R. E. Jenkins photo archive.	Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret.
	1313k	*LCU-1614* alongside the pier at Trumbo Point, Key West, FL., date unknown. Note unidentified ocean surveillance ship tied up opposite. Photo by Ray Blazevic. Image from Flickr courtesy of Florida Keys Public Libraries photo # MM00040180x	Robert Hurst
Commercial Service
	87k	Ex-*LCU-1614* alongside the pier at Trumbo Point, Key West, FL., date unknown. Unidentified wrecking tugs opposite. Monroe County Library Collection. Image from Flickr courtesy of Florida Keys Public Libraries photo # MM0045189x.	Robert Hurst
	77k	Ex-*LCU-1614* in commercial service as Coastal Villages MV Kelly Mae at Seattle, date unknown.	Joe Hall
	72k	MV Kelly Mae at Seattle, date unknown.	Joe Hall
	60k	MV Kelly Mae at Seattle, date unknown.	Joe Hall
	78k	MV Kelly Mae tendering fish on the Kuskokwim River near Tuntutuliak, Alaska, summer 2006.	Joe Hall
	60k	MV Kelly Mae tendering fish on the Kuskokwim River near Tuntutuliak, Alaska, summer 2006.	Joe Hall