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- Code Number:
- MYNV18P01_05
- Title:
- USS La Moure County (LST-1194), Newport-class tank landing ship, LST, USN, United States Navy
- Namesake: La Moure County, North Dakota
Builder: National Steel and Shipbuilding Company, San Diego, California
Laid down: 22/05/1970
Launched: 13/02/1971
Commissioned: 18/12/1971
Decommissioned: 17/11/2000
Struck: 17/11/2000
Fate: Sunk as a target, July 2001
Class and type: Newport-class tank landing ship
Displacement: 5,190 long tons (5,273 tons) light
8,550 long tons (8,687 tons) full load
Length: 159.49 meters (523 feet 3 in)
Beam: 21.273 meters (69 feet 9.5 in)
Draft: Full load : 4.11 meters (13 feet 6 in) forward, 4.98 meters (16 feet 4 in) aft
Depth: 2.4 m (8 feet) forward, 4.37 m (14 feet 4 in) aft (full load)
Installed power: 3 ALCO 251-C, 8-cylinder generator sets (750 kW)
Propulsion: 6 ALCO 251-C diesel engines (3 per shaft), 16,000 shp (12 MW)
2x shafts, 2x controllable reversible pitch propellers, twin rudders
1 800 hp (597 kW) variable-pitch bow thruster
Speed: 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Craft carried: 2 LCPLs
Troops: 18 officers, 21 SNCO, 268 enlisted
Complement: 14 officers, 15 CPO, 226 enlisted
Armament: 2 3"/50 caliber guns
Later replaced by :
2 single 25 mm Mark 38 guns
1 20 mm Phalanx CIWS
8 M2 Browning .50 caliber machine guns
Aviation facilities: Helicopter landing pad - Keywords:
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