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USS LSM-17

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USS LSM-17
Career US flag 48 stars
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)
Fate: Laid up, 1946
Loaned to France, 1 April 1954
Career Civil and Naval Ensign of France
Acquired: On loan, 1 April 1954
Fate: Returned to U.S. Navy, 14 October 1956
Loaned to South Korea, 18 October 1956
Career Flag of South Korea
Acquired: On loan, 18 October 1956
Bought outright, 15 November 1974
Status: Ship in active service
General characteristics [1]
Class & type: LSM-1-class landing ship medium
Displacement: 530 long tons (539 t) light
900 long tons (914 t) fully loaded
Length: 203 ft 6 in (62.03 m) o/a
Beam: 34 ft (10 m)
Draft: Landing :
3 ft 6 in (1.07 m) forward
7 ft 8 in (2.34 m) aft
Full load :
6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) forward
8 ft 3 in (2.51 m) aft
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)
Capacity: Either
Troops: 54 troops
Complement: 4 officers, 54 enlisted
Armament: 2 × 40 mm AA guns
4 × 20 mm AA guns

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[]

  1. ↑ "Landing Ship Medium LSM-17". navsource.org. 2010. http://www.navsource.org/archives/10/14/14017.htm. Retrieved 3 July 2012. 
  2. ↑ 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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  • Preceded by: None
  • Followed by: LSM(R)-188 class
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