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LCM '38ft prototype' landing craft, mechanized (1938)

 

Names

LCM13563

Builders

 

Commissioned

1938: LCM13563

Losses

 

Transfers

none

Discarding

 

 

Displacement standard, t

20

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

11.6

Breadth, m

4.12

Draught, m

1.09

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Ford petrol engines

Power, h. p.

150

Max speed, kts

6

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

2 x 1 - 7.6/90

Military load

2 6.5t or 1 9t tank

Complement

 

   

Project history: Landing craft, mechanized.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: None.

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