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USS LSM-247
Career (US) US flag 48 stars
Builder: Western Pipe and Steel Company, San Pedro, California
Commissioned: 16 November 1944
Decommissioned: 2 May 1946
Fate: sold in February 1947 to Ming-Sung Industrial Co., Ltd
General characteristics
Displacement: 1,095 tons (f.)
Length: 203 ft 6 in (62.03 m)
Beam: 34 ft 6 in (10.52 m)
Draught: 7 ft 4 in (2.24 m)
Propulsion: two General Motors diesel engines, each 1,440 BHP
Troops: 48
Complement: 59
Armament: four 20mm gun mounts, one bow 40mm gun
Armor: gun mounts, pilot house and conning station protected by 10-lb. STS splinter shields

USS LSM-247 was a United States Navy landing ship of World War II.

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