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USAV Coamo (LCU-2014)


International Radio Call Sign:
Alpha - Alpha - Echo - Juliet
 AAEJ
Runnymede Class Landing Craft Utility:
  • Built in 1991-92 at Halter Marine, Inc., Pascagoula, MS
  • Launched, date unknown
  • Delivered to the US Army Quartermaster Corps, 4 January 1991
  • Assigned to the US Army Transportation Corps. Commissioned USAV Coamo (LCU-2014), 4 January 1991
  • Decommissoined and retrired fro US Army service, 2021
  • Sold by GSA at Yokohama, October 2021
  • Sold to Pacific International Inc. and towed to Marshall Islands by Ex-US Army tug BGen. Zebulon Pike (LT-804)
    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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    Coamo
    302501408    		 52k
    Namesake
    Coamo The battle at Coamo, which took place on August 9, 1898. This battle was part of one of the shortest wars the U.S. participated in, the Spanish-American War of 1898. In the Puerto Rican Campaign of the war, frequent small military engagements erupted and died down. Such was the case at Coamo. American troops under General Oswald Ernst encountered Spanish resistance as they moved along a road from Ponce to Aibonito. The battle was inevitable as the Americans needed to reach the Spanish stronghold at Aibonito and the Spaniards strove to stop them by ambushes and whatever artillery fire they could get their hands on. The Spaniards suffered 40 killed and wounded, including the commander and his second-in-command. The Americans managed to capture 167 enemy soldiers and their pathway to Aibonito was now open.
    Photo - Battery B, 4th Artillery shelling a blockhouse at Coamo, Latin American Studies.Org
    Map - Battle of Coamo Spanish American Centennial Website     		Tommy Trampp
    Coamo
    302501401    		 173k U.S. Army Spc. Michael Breneman signals to a Japan Ground Self Defense Force light armored vehicle during an onload evolution aboard USAV Coamo (LCU-2014) at Commander, U.S. Fleet Activities Sasebo, Japan, 27 July 2016. This onload is part of the first-ever point-to-point shipment of JGSDF vehicles aboard U.S. military vessels. The JGSDF personnel and equipment will take part in Rising Thunder, an annual bilateral U.S. Army-JGSDF exercise held at Yakima Training Center, WA.
    US Navy photo #160727-N-NY430-233 SASEBO JAPAN (Jul 27, 2016) by MC3 Kristopher S. Haley
    Coamo
    302501402    		 184k USAV Coamo (LCU-2014) moored pierside in Japan, date unknown.  
    Coamo
    302501403    		 137k USAV Coamo (LCU-2014) heads toward the Yokohama North Dock unloading ramp, 31 July 2006.
    US Army Japan photo     		Tommy Trampp
    Coamo
    302501405    		 123k USAV Coamo (LCU-2014) lowers her ramp as she nears the Yokohama North Dock unloading ramp, 31 July 2006.
    US Army Japan photo     		Tommy Trampp
    Coamo
    302501406    		 137k USAV Coamo (LCU-2014) is ready to unload Japan Ground Self-Defense Force's Western Army vehicles at the Yokohama North Dock unloading ramp, 31 July 2006.
    US Army Japan photo     		Tommy Trampp
    Coamo
    302501407    		 161k A U.S. Army Soldier signals to the driver of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force vehicle to advance to unload from USAV Coamo (LCU-2014) at the Yokohama North Dock unloading ramp, 31 July 2006.
    US Army Japan photo     		Tommy Trampp
    Coamo
    302501404    		 183k A Japan Ground Self-Defense light armored vehicle rolls off the ramp of USAV Coamo (LCU-2014) at the Yokohama North Dock unloading ramp, 31 July 2006.
    US Army Japan photo     		Tommy Trampp
    2nd Lt. John P. Bobo
    0913300820    		 194k A roll-on roll-off discharge facility with US Army Landing Craft USAV Coamo (LCU-2014) alongside is attached to the Military Sealift command roll-on/roll-off ship USNS 2nd LT. John P. Bobo (T-AK-3008) off the shore of Anmyeon Beach, Republic of Korea, during Combined Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore 2015. The exercise trains U.S. and Republic of Korea service members to accomplish vital logistical measures in a strategic area while strengthening communication and cooperation in the U.S.- ROK Alliance.
    U.S. Army photo # 150704-A-ZR018-011 ANMYEON BEACH, Republic of Korea (July 4, 2015) by: Maricris C. McLane    		 Tommy Trampp
    Perryville
    302503405    		 143k Ex-Large Coastal Tug USAV BGen. Zebulon Pike (LT-804), sold to Pacific International Inc. in October 2021 towed ex-ex-USAV Perryville (LCU-2034) carrying ex-US Army LCM8-559 and ex-USAV Coamo (LCU-2014) carrying ex US Army LCM8-617 from Yokohama, Japan to the Marshall Islands. John Spivey
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