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Manassas (LCU-1667)


LCU-1646 Landing Craft Utility
  • Built in 1974 by General Ship, East Boston, MA
  • Launched, 1974
  • Delivered, 1974
  • Retired from US Army service, date unknown
  • Sold 2006
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 200 t.(lt), 375 t.(fl)
    Length 134' 9"
    Beam 29'
    Draft 6' 1"
    Speed 11 kts.
    Complement 14
    Armament
    four .50 cal. machine guns
    two M60 machine guns
    one M203 grenade launcher
    twelve M16 rifles
    two 9mm pistols
    Load 170 tons
    Military Lift three M1A1 tanks, 10 LAVs or 400+ troops, 125 tons of cargo.
    Radar Navigation: LN 66 or SPS-53; I band.
    Propulsion
    two Detroit 12V-71 Diesel engines
    twin shafts, 680shp sustained, Kort nozzles
    Fuel Capacity 3220 gals.
    Range 1,200nm at eight knots

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    Bull Run
    101815901
    464k
    Namesake
    Manassas - Manassas National Battlefield. The battlefield marks the site where two great battles of the Civil War - the First and Second Battles of Bull Run - were fought. On July 21, 1861, picnickers and other sightseers accompanied the ill trained Union Army under General McDowell as it marched out of Washington to fight the Confederate Army under Generals Beauregard and Johnston. After 10 hours of deadly fighting, however, it became apparent that this conflict was not going to be the only battle of a short civil war, as most had expected. At this first battle General T.J. Jackson was given his famous nickname, “Stonewall." The combat-hardened armies of the North and South returned months later to fight a four-times larger battle on August 28-30, 1862. Confederate General Robert E. Lee outmaneuvered and defeated a larger force under Union General Pope. This victory led to Lee's first invasion of the North.
    Second Battle of Bull Run, Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5848. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
    Tommy Trampp
    Bull Run
    101815902
    157k
    Manassas
    1018166701
    200k Starboard bow view of Manassas (LCU-1667) moored pierside on the James River at the small boat harbor, Fort Eustis, VA.
    Photo by Don S. Montgomery, USN (Ret.)
    Tommy Trampp
    Manassas
    1018166702
    156k Manassas (LCU-1667) moored in tha small boat harbor, Fort Eustis, Newport News, VA., 23 July 1988.
    Photo by Don S. Montgomery, USN (Ret.)
    Tommy Trampp

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