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HM LCI(L)-242


LCI(L)-242 was transferred to the Royal Navy under terms of the Lend-Lease Act
LCI-1 Class Landing Craft Infantry (Large):
  • Laid down in 1942 at New Jersey Shipbuilding Co., Barber, N.J.
  • Launched in 1942
  • Transferred to the United Kingdom under terms of the Lend-Lease Act for the duration of World War II
  • Commissioned into the Royal Navy as HM LCI(L)-242, 20 November 1942
  • Returned to US Navy custody, 27 March 1946
  • Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown
  • Transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal
  • Final Disposition, sold by the Maritime Commission, 18 March 1948, fate unknown.
    Specifications:
    Displacement 236 t.(light), 264 t.(landing), 419 t.(loaded)
    Length 158' 5½"
    Beam 23' 3"
    Draft
    Light, 3'1½" mean
    Landing, 2' 8" forward, 4' 10" aft
    Loaded, 5' 4" forward, 5' 11" aft
    Speed
    16 kts (max.)
    14 kts maximum continuous
    Complement
    4 officers
    24 enlisted
    Troop Capacity
    6 officers
    182 enlisted
    Cargo Capacity 75 tons
    Armor 2" plastic splinter protection on gun turrets, conning tower and pilot house
    Endurance 4,000 miles at 12 kts, loaded, 500 miles at 15 knots; and 110 tons of fuel
    Armament
    five single 20mm guns, one bow mounted, one each port and starboard forward of wheelhouse, one each port and starboard aft of wheelhouse
    on some LCIs two .50 cal machine guns were added
    Fuel Capacity
    Diesel 860 Bbls
    lube oil 200 gal
    Propulsion
    two sets of 4 General Motors 6051 series 71 Diesel engines, 4 per shaft
    single General Motors Main reduction gears
    two Diesel-drive 30Kw 120V D.C. Ship's Service Generators
    twin variable pitch propellers, 2,320shp
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    LCI(L)-242 1697k HM LCI(L)-242 and HM LCI)L)-256 disembarking American army nurses in Naples harbor, while a human chain passes supplies to dry land. Nurses were desperately needed during the early days of Allied occupation. Landing craft were used to bring personnel and supplies ashore at Naples while docking facilities were unusable because of German demolitions. The Allies were able to restore the docks four days after liberating the city.
    US Army Signal Corps. photo.    		 Dave Kerr
    LCI(L)-242
    1015024203    		 468k U.S. Army nurses make their way down the ramp of HM LCI(L)-242 on the Mediterranean island of Pantelleria, Italy, in 1943. The 34th Station Hospital on the island became the first Army Air Forces hospital truly attached to an Army Air Forces unit.
    US Army Signal Corps. photo.    		 Marc Levine
    LCI(L)-242 724k HM LCI(L)-242 underway in the English Channel, date unknown. Jerry Gilmartin MMC(SW) USN Ret. Secretary AFMM LCI 713, Curator PT-658 Save the PT Boat Inc, courtesy Dennis Blocker LCI National Association Historian
    The history for LCI(L)-242 is from USS LCI "Landing Craft Infantry", Vol. II. Paducah, Kentucky: Turner Publishing Company, © 1995. (ISBN 1-56311-262-0)
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