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 |
Stricken | 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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Class and 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) |
Draft |
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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
[edit]- ^ "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
[edit]- 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.