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FRENCH NAVY (FRANCE)

AMPHIBIOUS SHIPS AND CRAFT

LAÏTA tank landing ships (1943 - 1945 / 1947 - 1951)

Liamone 1950

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
Liamone (ex-LST326) L9000   Philadelphia N Yd, USA 11.1942 11.2.1943 2.1943 // 4.1946 stricken 1951
Laïta (ex-LST177) L9001   Missouri Valley Bridge, Evansville, USA 2.1943 16.5.1943 6.1943 // 4.1946 stricken 7.1964
Orne (ex-LST508) L9002   Jeffersonville, USA 9.1943 10.11.1943 1.1944 // 1.1947 stricken 2.1962
Vire (ex-LST347) L9003   Norfolk N Yd, Portsmouth, USA 11.1942 7.2.1943 2.1943 // 1.1948 stricken 1.1957
Rance (ex-LST(H)223, ex-LST223) L9004   Chicago Bridge, Seneca, USA 3.1943 24.8.1943 9.1943 // 3.1947 stricken 1962
Odet (ex-LST815) L9005   Missouri Valley Bridge, Evansville, USA 8.1944 7.10.1944 10.1944 // 5.1948 stricken 8.1962
Chéliff (ex-LST874) L9006   Missouri Valley Bridge, Evansville, USA 10.1944 25.11.1944 12.1944 // 1948 stricken 1969
Adour (ex-LST860) L9007   Chicago Bridge, Seneca, USA 9.1944 19.12.1944 1.1945 // 1949 stricken 1955
Golo (ex-LST973) L9008   Bethlehem, Hingham, USA 11.1944 27.12.1944 1.1945 // 11.1951 stricken 1960

 

Displacement standard, t

1625

Displacement full, t

4080

Length, m

96.3 wl 100.0 oa

Breadth, m

15.2

Draught, m

landing: 1.19 fore, 3.00 aft, sea-going: 2.30 fore, 4.30 aft

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 General Motors diesels

Power, h. p.

1800

Max speed, kts

11

Fuel, t

diesel oil 590

Endurance, nm(kts) 24000 (9)

Armament

2 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 4 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, 12 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4

Military load

4 LCVP, 20 medium tanks (25-t) or 500t of cargo, 163 marines

Electronic equipment

radar

Complement

111

Project history: Former USN LST type landing ships, transferred under MDAP.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Adour was badly damaged through sinking 17.5.1951 at Nha Trang (Vietnam) but was repaired and later used as accommodation ship.

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