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Landing Craft Utility
LCU-1663

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

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Navy Unit Commendation - Navy Battle "E" Ribbon (2) - National Defense Service Ribbon


LCU-1646 Landing Craft Utility
  • Built in 1971, at Defoe Shipbuilding Co., Bay City, MI.
  • Launched, date unknown
  • Delivered, date unknown
  • Status, active
    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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    LCU-1658 36k LCU-1658 and LCU-1663 beached at a ramp, date and location unknown. US Navy photo
    LCU-1663 49k LCU-1663 loading/off-loading a small truck, circa 1968, location unknown.
    US Navy photo
    Combat Index web site
    LCU-1663 42k LCU-1663 approaching a beach, circa 1968, location unknown.
    US Navy photo
    Combat Index web site
    LCU-1663 51k LCU-1663 loading passengers, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo
    Combat Index web site
    LCU-1663 24k LCU-1663 loading/unloading a bus, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo
    Combat Index web site
    LCU-1663 42k LCU-1663 leaving/approaching a ramp with vehicles on board, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo
    Combat Index web site
    LCU-1663 35k LCU-1663 off-loading a tractor across the beach, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo
    Combat Index web site
    LCU-1663 48k LCU-1663 beached, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo
    Combat Index web site
    LCU-1663 34k LCU-1663 approaching a ramp, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo
    Combat Index web site
    LCU-1663 45k LCU-1663 and LCU-1662 approaching a beach, April 1968, location unknown.
    US Navy photo
    Combat Index web site
    LCU-1663 41k LCU-1663 and LCU-1662 off-loading a truck and trailer, circa April 1968, location unknown.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, April 1968
    Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    LCU-1663 51k LCU-1663 and LCU-1662 preparing to beach, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo
    Combat Index web site
    LCU-1663 51k LCU-1663 and LCU-1662 beach, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo
    Combat Index web site
    LCU-1664 1091k LCU-1663 and LCU-1664 and a LCM-6 moored forward of USS Fort Snelling (LSD-30) at Genoa, Italy, 5 March 1977. Photo by Carlo Martinelli
    LCU-1664 1160k
    LCU-1663 144k LCU-1663 and LCU-1662 beach during amphibious exercises, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo from m"All Hands" magazine, August 1982
    Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    LCU-1663 348k LCU-1663, LCU-1662 and LCU-1553 during amphibious exercises, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, August 1982
    Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    Dynamic 586k Line handlers aboard auxiliary floating dry dock Dynamic (AFDL-6) works with LCU-1663 crew members to pull the craft into dry dock.
    US Navy photo # 061102-N-4238B-170 Virginia Beach, Va. (Nov. 2, 2006) by MCSN Kelly E. Barnes.
    Navy Newsstand
    LCU-1644 256k LCU-1663, right and LCU-1644, left, assigned to Assault Craft Unit (ACU-2), rehearse storming the beach in Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, 6 June 2006. ACU-2 is embarked aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD-5), underway joining military forces from France, Spain, United Kingdom and Venezuela in the Dutch led Joint-Caribe Lion, 2006 (J-CL06) exercise. In the distance is the Royal Netherlands Landing Platform Ship HNLMS Rotterdam (L800).
    US Navy photo # 060606-N-8154G-115 by PH3 Jeremy L. Grisham.
    Robert Hurst
    Ashland 154k LCU-1633 assigned to Naval Beach Unit (NBU-7) prepares to enter the well deck of landing ship dock USS Ashland (LSD-48).
    US Navy photo # 140311-N-BB269-406 EAST CHINA SEA (March 11, 2014) by MCSN Raymond D. Diaz III).
    Robert M. Cieri

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    Navy Fact File - Landing Craft, Mechanized and Utility - LCM/LCU
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