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AMPHIBIOUS SHIPS AND CRAFT

LCT(2) type tank landing craft (1941/1944)

Dieppe 1944

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Dieppe (ex-TLC124 or TLC145)     Tees-Side Bridge, Middlesborough, UK     1941 // 1.1944 surrendered 5.1945, sold

 

Displacement standard, t

296

Displacement full, t

453

Length, m

48.8

Breadth, m

9.45

Draught, m

2.13 deep load

No of shafts

3

Machinery

Napier petrol engines

Power, h. p.

1050

Max speed, kts

10.5

Fuel, t

petrol 49 100 l

Endurance, nm(kts) 2700(10)

Armament

2 x 1 - 37/80 SK C/30, 2 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 2 DCR (6)

Military load

3 Pz.V tanks or 7 Pz.III tanks or 250 t of cargo

Complement

27

Project history: Ex-British LCT sunk un Dieppe 19.8.1942, salvaged by Germans and commissioned as Dieppe.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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