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Landing Craft Utility
LCU-1643


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National Defense Service Medal

LCU-1627 Class Landing Craft Tank (Modified Version of LCT Mark 5)
  • Built between 1969 and 1970 at Marinette Marine Corp., Marinette, WI.
  • Delivered, date unknown
  • Current Disposition, 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
    one single 20mm AA gun mount
    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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    LCU-1643 80k LCU-1643 underway with a full load, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo
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    LCU-1643 282k LCU-1643 underway, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, August 1980.
    Joe Radigan MACM USN ret.
    LCU-1643 167k LCU-1643 and an LCM-8 approach the beach during amphibious landing exercises, date and location.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, January 1981.
    Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    LCU-1643 118k LCU-1643 off loading troops across the stern gate of a large amphibious ship, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo.
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    LCU-1643 79k LCU-1643 beached in Greece while off loading equipment, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo
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    LCU-1643 56k LCU-1643 comes ashore during Exercise SOLID SHIELD '83, at Onslow Beach, Camp Lejeune, N.C., 16 April 1983.
    Defense Imagery web photo # DN-ST-85-07127 by PH1 C.W. Griffin, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the Defense Imagery web site.
    Defense Imagery
    LCU-1643 54k A Mark 8 mechanized landing craft (LCM), right, and LCU 1643 come ashore during Exercise SOLID SHIELD '83, at Onslow Beach, Camp Lejeune, N.C., 16 April 1983. In the background is USS Manitowoc (LST 1180)
    Defense Imagery photo # DN-ST-85-07124 by PH1 C.W. Griffin, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the Defense Imagery web site.
    Defense Imagery
    LCU-1643 1460k LCU-1643, assigned to Assault Craft Unit (ACU) 2 based at Little Creek, VA., transport's an M149 water buffalo trailer back to the amphibious dock landing ship USS Oak Hill (LSD-51), off Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 28 July 2009. Oak Hill is participating in the combined multinational exercise Southern Partnership Station '09. Partnership Station is a combined naval and amphibious operation with Oak Hill and maritime forces from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, and Uruguay. Oak Hill is supporting U.S Marine Corps Forces South multinational amphibious exercise Southern Exchange 2009.
    US Navy photo # 090728-N-0924R-023 by MC3 Cory Rose.
    Robert Hurst

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    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log

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