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"LCI(S)"-type small infantry landing craft (1942)

LCI(S)501 1943

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp. Fate
LCI(S)501, 1944- LCI(S)2501     Tough Brothers, Teddington   1942 2.1942  
LCI(S)502, 1944- LCI(S)2502     Cadnell, Althorne   1942 1942  
LCI(S)503, 1944- LCI(S)2503     Curtis, Looe   1942 1942  
LCI(S)504, 1944- LCI(S)2504     Weatherhead, West Harbour   1942 1942  
LCI(S)505, 1944- LCI(S)2505     John Sadd, Maldon   1942 1942  
LCI(S)506, 1944- LCI(S)2506     Solent SYd, Sarisbury Green   1942 1942  
LCI(S)507, 1944- LCI(S)2507     Austins, London   1942 1942  
LCI(S)508, 1944- LCI(S)2508     Curtis, Looe   1942 1942  
LCI(S)509, 1944- LCI(S)2509     Thomson & Balfour, Victoria Saw Mills   1942 1942  
LCI(S)510, 1944- LCI(S)2510     J. S. Doig, Grimsby Docks   1942 1942  
LCI(S)511, 1944- LCI(S)2511     Leo Robinson, Oulton Broad   1942 1942 sunk 2.2.1944
LCI(S)512, 1944- LCI(S)2512     Brook Marine, Oulton Broad   1942 1942 sunk 6.1944
LCI(S)513, 1944- LCI(S)2513     Brook Marine, Oulton Broad   1942 1942  
LCI(S)514, 1944- LCI(S)2514     Brook Marine, Oulton Broad   1942 1942  
LCI(S)515, 1944- LCI(S)2515     Brook Marine, Oulton Broad   1942 1942  
LCI(S)516, 1944- LCI(S)2516     Curtis, Looe   1942 1942  
LCI(S)517, 1944- LCI(S)2517     Weatherhead, West Harbour   1942 1942 sunk 6.1944
LCI(S)518, 1944- LCI(S)2518     Southampton Steam, Southampton   1942 1942  
LCI(S)519, 1944- LCI(S)2519     Curtis, Looe   1942 1942  
LCI(S)520, 1944- LCI(S)2520     Collins, Oulton Broad   1942 1942  
LCI(S)521, 1944- LCI(S)2521     Curtis, Looe   1942 1942  
LCI(S)522, 1944- LCI(S)2522     Weatherhead, West Harbour   1942 1942  
LCI(S)523, 1944- LCI(S)2523     Cadnell, Althorne   1942 1942  
LCI(S)524, 1944- LCI(S)2524     Thomson & Balfour, Victoria Saw Mills   1942 1942 sunk 6.1944
LCI(S)525, 1944- LCI(S)2525     Tough Brothers, Teddington   1942 1942  
LCI(S)526, 1944- LCI(S)2526     Itchenor SYd   1942 1942  
LCI(S)527, 1944- LCI(S)2527     Curtis, Looe   1942 1942  
LCI(S)528, 1944- LCI(S)2528     Curtis, Looe   1942 1942  
LCI(S)529, 1944- LCI(S)2529     Curtis, Looe   1942 1942  
LCI(S)530, 1944- LCI(S)2530     Weatherhead, West Harbour   1942 1942  
LCI(S)531, 1944- LCI(S)2531     J. S. Doig, Grimsby Docks   1942 1942 sunk 6.1944
LCI(S)532, 1944- LCI(S)2532     Collins, Oulton Broad   1942 1942 sunk 1.11.1944
LCI(S)533, 1944- LCI(S)2533     Leo Robinson, Oulton Broad   1942 1942  
LCI(S)534, 1944- LCI(S)2534     Brook Marine, Oulton Broad   1942 1942  
LCI(S)535, 1944- LCI(S)2535     Weatherhead, West Harbour   1942 1942  
LCI(S)536, 1944- LCI(S)2536     Solent SYd, Sraisbury Green   1942 1942  
LCI(S)537, 1944- LCI(S)2537     Percival, Horning   1942 1942 sunk 6.1944
LCI(S)538, 1944- LCI(S)2538     Brook Marine, Oulton Broad   1942 1942  
LCI(S)539, 1944- LCI(S)2539     Brook Marine, Oulton Broad   1942 1942  
LCI(S)540, 1944- LCI(S)2540     Weatherhead, West Harbour   1942 1942 sunk 6.1944

 

Displacement standard, t

63

Displacement full, t

110

Length, m

32.0

Breadth, m

6.53

Draught, m

1.08 deep load

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Hall-Scott petrol engines

Power, h. p.

1120 or 1500

Max speed, kts

15

Fuel, t

petrol 12.7

Endurance, nm(kts) 700(12.5)
Armour deck, hull sides, guns, fwd bulkhead, generator room, bridge: 6

Armament

2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 2 x 1 - 7.7/87

Military load

102 troops

Sensors presumably some: type 286PU radar

Complement

17

Project history: Fairmile "H" craft.

Modernizations:  None.

Naval service: No significant events.

LCI(S)

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