USS LSM-17
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Name: | USS LSM-17 |
Builder: | Brown Shipbuilding Co., Houston, Texas |
Laid down: | 10 April 1944 |
Launched: | 7 May 1944 |
Commissioned: | 14 June 1944 |
Decommissioned: | 22 July 1946 |
Struck: | 15 November 1974 |
Honors and awards: | 1 battle star (Okinawa, 1945) |
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Acquired: | On loan, 1 April 1954 |
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Status: | in active service, as of 1996 |
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Class & type: | LSM-1-class landing ship medium |
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Length: | 203 ft 6 in (62.03 m) o/a |
Beam: | 34 ft (10 m) |
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Propulsion: | Fairbanks-Morse diesel engines, 2,800 shp (2,088 kW), direct drive, 2 screws |
Speed: | 13.3 knots (24.6 km/h; 15.3 mph) |
Range: | 5,000 nmi (9,300 km) at 7 kn (13 km/h; 8.1 mph) |
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Troops: | 54 troops |
Complement: | 4 officers, 54 enlisted |
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The USS LSM-17 was a LSM-1-class landing ship medium of the United States Navy, commissioned at Brown Shipyards in Houston, Texas, on 14 June 1944.[2] During the remainder of World War II, it served in the Pacific.
References
- ↑ "Landing Ship Medium LSM-17". navsource.org. 2010. Retrieved 3 July 2012.
- ↑ William John Stevenson (AFC 2001/001/24632), Unit History (MS01), Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.
Further reading
- Stevenson, William J., and Wendy Stevenson Clem. 2001. Lucky 17: Narratives from an LSM Crew as Part of the Amphibious Navy Fleet During WWII. Roseville, MI: CNC Systems, Inc.
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