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USAV Kennesaw Mountain (LCU-2002)


International Radio Call Sign:
Alpha - Alpha - Echo - Golf
AAEG
Runnymede Class Landing Craft Utility:
  • Laid down, date unknown, at Thunderbolt Marine, Savannah, GA. Completed at Trinity-Moss Point Marine, Escatawpa, MS,
  • Launched, date unknown
  • Delivered to the US Army Quartermaster Corps, 9 May 1990
  • Assigned to the US Army Transportation Corps, Commissioned USAV Kennesaw Mountain (LCU-2002), 9 May 1990
  • Status, Active
    Specifications:
    Displacement 575 t.
    Length 174'
    Beam 42'
    Draft 9' light
    Speed
    Light, 12kts per hr
    Loaded, 10 kts per hr
    Range 4,500 nm
    Complement
    Two Warrant Officers
    Eleven Enlisted
    Cargo Capacity 350 short tons
    Largest Boom Capacity unknown
    Armament unknown
    Fuel Capacity unknown
    Fuel Consumption 26 gal. per hour
    Propulsion
    two bow thrusters
    two turbo charged Cummins V16 KTA50-M 1250hp diesel engines
    two propeller shafts, 2,500 bhp

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    Kennesaw Mountain
    302500201
    135k
    Namesake
    Kennesaw Mountain - The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain was fought on June 27, 1864, during the Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War. It was the most significant frontal assault launched by Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman against the Confederate Army of Tennessee under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, ending in a tactical defeat for the Union forces. Strategically, however, the battle failed to deliver the result that the Confederacy desperately needed—namely a halt to Sherman's advance on Atlanta.(Wikipedia)
    Confederate troops dragging guns up Kennesaw Mountain.
    Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, The Century Company, p. 271
    Tommy Trampp
    Kennesaw Mountain
    302500202
    193k USAV Kennesaw Mountain (LCU-2002) approaches the beach as part of the licensing process for prospective operators. The vessel is crewed by the 824th Transportation Company, a Reserve unit from Morehead City, N.C. The unit just started a year long deployment at Kuwait Naval Base,, Kuwait, to support Operation Enduring Freedom.
    US Army photo # 120120-A-#####-435 MOOREHEAD CITY) 20 Jan. 2012 by Cpl. Jeffrey Daniel
    Tommy Trampp
    Kennesaw Mountain
    302500203
    120k USAV Kennesaw Mountain (LCU-2002) bridge team, Chief Warrant Officer 2 Tom Heald, right, speaks to the Engine Room while, Sgt. Robert L. Wallace, center, adjusts the engine controls, and Sgt. 1st Class Ronald E. Buffkin, left, watches the radar.
    US Army photo, 20 January 2012
    Tommy Trampp
    Kennesaw Mountain
    302500204
    119k Soldiers from the 824th Transportation Company, a Reserve Unit, from Moorehead City, N.C., assigned to USAV Kennesaw Mountain (LCU-2002), point in the direction of "Oscar," the dummy used for man overboard drills near Kuwait Navy Base, Kuwait.
    US Army photo, 20 January 2012
    Tommy Trampp
    Kennesaw Mountain
    302500205
    164k .Sgt 1st Class Daniel Close calls out distance reports to the bridge of USAV Kennesaw Mountain (LCU-2002), as she approaches the "beach" near Kuwait Naval Base, Kuwait,as part of the licensing process for prospective operators, 20 January 2012.
    US Army photos, 20 January 2012.>
    Tommy Trampp
    Kennesaw Mountain
    302500206
    66k
    Kennesaw Mountain
    302500207
    152k

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