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Cockatoo (AMCU 21)
ex-LCI(L)-709
AMCU-7 Class Coastal Minesweeper (Underwater Locator): Laid down, 11 July 1944 by George Lawley and Son, Neponset, MA; Launched, 20 July 1944; Commissioned USS LCI(L)-709, 27 July 1944; Named Cockatoo and reclassified a Coastal Minesweeper (Underwater Locator), AMCU-21, 7 March 1952; Conversion to AMCU-21 began, 8 June 1953 at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA; Recommissioned, 6 November 1953; Conversion completed, 3 December 1953; Sold in 1960. Fate unknown.
LCI Specifications: Displacement 387 t.; Length 159'; Beam 23' 8"; Draft 5' 8"; Speed 14 kts.; Complement 40; Armament five 20mm guns and two .50 cal. machine guns; Propulsion two sets of four 2,320shp General Motors 6051-71 diesel engines, General Motors single reduction gear, variable pitch propellers,
two shafts.
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c. 1944
Hollandia, New Guinea
Photo from the June 2006 edition of the USS LCI National Association's newsletter "The
Elsie Item"
Courtesy of Umberto "Bond" Bonosoro, USS LCI(L)-709 |
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