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	Landing craft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		A landing craft is a type of boat used to convey infantry and vehicles on to a shore during an assault from sea to land.
		Landing Craft are ships or smaller vessels whose primary purpose is to place elements of an army on an (enemy held) beach.
		The High Summer of the landing craft was the latter half of WWII when a large number of different designs were produced in large quantities by the United Kingdom and USA.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/L/Landing-craft.htm (1437 words)

	Landing craft tank - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Landing craft tank was an amphibious assault ship for landing tanks on beachheads, used by the U.S. Navy in World War II, and afterwards under different designations in the Korean War and the Vietnam War.
		Some of these were later reclassified during the Vietnam War as Harbor Utility Craft (YFU) because they no longer served in an amphibious assault role but were only used in harbor support roles such as transporting goods from supply ships into harbor.
		Twenty-six of them had armor added, making them LCT(A), Landing Craft Tank (Armored), for the D-Day invasion; however, this reduced their load from 4 tanks to 2.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Landing_craft_tank (481 words)

	LANDING CRAFT DEPARTMENT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		LCUs are normally carried to various operating areas in the well decks of Navy amphibious ships, whereas LCM-8s are embarked in merchant ships that store and transport United States Marine Corps vehicles and cargo to operating areas.
		The mission of the LCU is to transport tanks and vehicles, troops and cargo during amphibious operations.
		The LCU is a self-sustaining craft complete with living accommodations and messing facilities for a crew of ten.
	www.cnsl.spear.navy.mil /acu2/LCU.htm (199 words)

	acu1menu.gif (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		LCU 1614 and 1618 were transferred to the Seabee's, who converted them into salvage craft with booms and winches.
		LCU 1615 and 1622 were reclassified YFU (Yard Freight Utility) 99 and 98 and transferred to the Weapons test facility Port Hueneme, where 1622 would eventually be stripped and sold.
		LCU 1617 and 1646, embarked in USS OGDEN (LPD 5), were already on station in the Arabian Gulf when the Iraqis invaded Kuwait.
	www.acu1.navy.mil /history.htm (5147 words)

	Albion class landing platform dock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Albion class landing platform dock ships are the newest amphibious assault vessels in the Royal Navy fleet.
		The class gives the Royal Navy the ability to land heavy forces over the beach as the ships are capable of taking Challenger 2 tanks and all other heavy armoured vehicles that the United Kingdom operates.
		Floodable well dock, with the capacity to take either four utility landing craft (each capable of carrying one Challenger 2 tank) or shelter a hovercraft landing craft.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Albion_class_landing_platform_dock (404 words)

	Expeditionary Equipment - Amphibious Crafts
		Air cushion craft for transporting, ship-to-shore and across the beach, personnel, weapons, equipment, and cargo of the assault elements of the Marine Air-Ground Task Force.
		It is a high-speed, over-the-beach fully amphibious landing craft capable of carrying a 60-75 ton payload.
		Landing craft are used by amphibious forces to transport equipment and troops to the shore.
	www.exwar.org /Htm/9000PopC.htm (98 words)

	Landing Craft, Mechanized and Utility - LCM / LCU
		LCU's are scheduled to land personnel and equipment after the initial assault waves of an amphibious operation.
		Another difference between the two landing craft is the LCU is home away from home for its crew, because it can operate independently of the amphibious ships on which it embarks.
		The 189 ton LCU are designed to carry 3 M-60 tanks, as many as 450 combat equipped troops or a variety of other support equipment such as surf cranes, bulldozers, trucks or artilleries.
	navysite.de /ships/lcm.htm (550 words)

	Landing Craft Utility (LCU)
		The new-development LCU is slated to arrive in the fleet in FY 2006.
		The LCU (R) enhanced characteristics (yet to be defined) will greatly reduce ship-to-beach cyclic time, and will include a drive through design with forward and aft ramps to improve vehicle and cargo loadout and discharge time when offloading amphibious and MPF shipping.
		Craft should be capable of carrying three (3) M1A1 tanks from the well deck to the beach.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/ship/lcu-x.htm (1200 words)

	AMI International - Definitions of Vessel Types
		Landing Craft, Assault (LCA) - An LCA is a small (under 20 tons), high-speed (up to 35 knots) vessel intended to carry a small number of troops (under 20) for quick assaults or commando-style operations.
		Landing Craft, Utility (LCU) - An LCU is generally and open-topped vessel designed to beach and discharge troops, vehicles, and cargo onto the beach via a bow ramp.
		Landing Craft, Vehicle/Personnel (LCVP) - An LCVP is a ship-transportable capable of carrying troops, cargo, and small vehicles to the beach.
	www.amiinter.com /vessel_type.html (2891 words)

	SAVING TODAY'S PRIVATE RYANS: LCU/M GUNBOATS
		Some landing craft carrying tanks fired in anger and these armored fighting vehicles (AFVs) were critical in the U.S. Army winning the desperate fight on Omaha beach.
		The LCU is still carried by older model LHA type amphibious ships since they can only carry one Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) due to the center divider in the flooding well deck.
		These stabilized platforms could fire from landing craft with both direct and indirect fire, and roll off onto the beach and keep the pressure on the enemy during the inland fight.
	www.geocities.com /Pentagon/Quarters/6747/lcugunboats.htm (1792 words)

	Chronology of Cambodian History
		On July 17 a US Army utility landing craft (LCU 1577) with 11 Americans and one RVN policeman on board inadvertently strayed into Cambodian waters on Mekong River and was seized by Cambodian Navy.
		LCU 1577 is utility landing craft designed for handling heavy and bulky cargoes.
		Craft was armed with two.50-caliber machine guns and one M-60 7.62 mm.
	www.geocities.com /khmerchronology/tele072668.htm (1090 words)

	Chinese Defence Today :: Type 271 Utility Landing Craft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Type 271 utility landing craft was developed by 708 Institute in 1967, with the first ship launched in 1968.
		The Type 271 utility landing craft is mainly used for amphibious assault, and transport of troops, vehicles, and cargo in inland rivers and costal islands where no dock facilities are available.
		The Type 271 utility landing craft has a conventional layout with a flat bow door.
	www.sinodefence.com /navy/amphibious/271.asp (155 words)

	Tank Landing Ships history, index
		Derricks, booms, and winches were added to haul damaged landing craft on board for repairs, and flsmith, machine, and electrical workshops were provided on the main deck and tank deck.
		This was in contrast with the earlier opinion expressed by many military authorities that the advent of the atomic bomb had relegated amphibious landings to a thing of the past.
		Thus, the utility of the LST seems to be assured far into the future.
	www.xmission.com /~jcander/lst.htm (1845 words)

	- Navy Ships
		The Craftmaster is wholly responsible for this craft and crew.
		Assault Craft Unit ONE located at the Naval Amphibious Base Coronado CA is the only assault craft unit in the Pacific Fleet.
		The mission of Assault Craft Unit ONE Is to operate, maintain and provide assault craft as required by the Amphibious Task Force Commander for water borne ship to shore movement during and after and amphibious assault.
	www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/ship/lcu.htm (692 words)

	Royal Navy: Landing Craft Training
		Students are taught to the necessary boat handling skills to operate and live from the Inflatable Raiding Craft (IRC), the Rigid Raiding Craft (RRC) and the Rigid Inflatable Boat (RIB) in the tactical environment.
		They are also taught to crew the Landing Craft Vehicle & Personnel (LCVP) and the Landing Craft Utility (LCU) as well as all the navigation and engineering skills required to be self sufficient when deployed in small groups.
		The students are trained to coxswain and command the Landing Craft Utility (LCU) as well as plan and conduct amphibious and riverine operations as a Boat Group Commander.
	www.royal-navy.mod.uk /static/pages/8078.html (532 words)

	history.html
		In close company, any major landing craft was difficult to hold on station; in a typhoon, trying to stop was impossible as great seas swept one craft hundreds of feet past the ship ahead.
		Even if the ship ahead was visible in the torrential rain there was little chance of avoiding her once another craft came too close astern, so the LCT flotilla leaders' signalmen risked their lives to flash lights as a guide when the craft spread out.
		His experienced crew made the landing smoothly and without incident; the captain was more than a little surprised when a messenger arrived from the flotilla commander requesting his presence.
	www.angelfire.com /pa/LCT376/history.html (1688 words)

	The Landing Ships
		The docking area can be flooded, and troops can embark directly from their mess decks onto the landing craft and allow the LCUs to swim out of the stern.
		On the run -in to the beach it was decided to mount a Scorpion and Scimitar side by side in the bows of the landing craft ready to blast at any enemy on the beach when the bow ramp was lowered, thus giving the LCU formidable fire power.
		This craft could carry an infantry platoon of 30 men or Land Rover and trailer, crewed by a JNCO as coxswain with 2 Marines as deck hands.
	www.britains-smallwars.com /Falklands/HMS-Fearless.htm (319 words)

	1968: The Definitive Year (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		L-Hour-In planned helicopter operations, it is the specific hour the helicopters land in the landing zone.
		LCVP-Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel, a small craft with a bow ramp used to transport assault troops and light vehicles to the beach.
		LPD-Amphibious transport, dock, a ship designed to transport and land troops, equipment, and supplies by means of embarked landing craft, amphibious vehicles, and helicopters.
	ehistory.osu.edu /vietnam/books/1968/0731.cfm (632 words)

	Storms lash 22nd MEU during first at-sea training exercise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Three landing craft, utility (LCUs) plow through rough seas toward the USS NASSAU during the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit's recent Amphibious Specialty Training exercise, April 12, 2005.
		Landing Craft, Air Cushioned (LCACs) and Landing Craft, Utility (LCUs), which are used to ferry equipment from shore to ship, pulled onto Camp Lejeune's Onslow Beach where truck, light armored vehicle, Humvee, and tank drivers practiced driving onto the landing craft, securing their vehicles, and then offloading.
		Under their own power and independent of the landing craft, assault amphibian vehicles (AAVs) slated to deploy with the MEU braved the surf and reached their ship off shore, pulling into the well deck of the USS AUSTIN.
	dcmilitary.com /marines/hendersonhall/10_16/national_news/34548-1.html (622 words)

	CFS2 Misc Page 13
		At wars end all MK5s were disposed of while the MK6s were redesignated as Utility Landing Ship LSU in 1949 and redesignated Landing Craft Utility LCU, 15 April 1956.
		Without Higgins' uniquely designed craft there could not have been a mass landing of troops and material on European shores or on the beaches of the Pacific islands, at least not without a tremendously higher rate of Allied casualties.
		You can also rename it and replace what CFS2 calls the USS Landing Craft Infantry, which is incorrect as the LCI was a much different ship.
	www.simviation.com /cfs2misc13.htm (954 words)

	Marine Corps News -> Storms lash 22nd MEU during first at-sea training exercise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Landing Craft, Air Cushioned and Landing Craft, Utility, which are used to ferry equipment from shore to ship, pulled onto Camp Lejeune's Onslow Beach where truck, light armored vehicle, Humvee, and tank drivers practiced driving onto the landing craft, securing their vehicles, and then offloading.
		Under their own power and independent of the landing craft, assault amphibian vehicles slated to deploy with the MEU braved the surf and reached their ship off shore, pulling into the well deck of the USS AUSTIN.
		Petty Officer First Class Joshua Fernandez, a Landing Craft, Air Cushioned (LCAC) loadmaster, teaches Marines from MEU Service Support Group 22 how to properly secure their trucks and Humvee onto the LCAC during the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit's recent Amphibious Specialty Training aboard and off the coast of Camp Lejeune, N.C., April 12, 2005.
	www.usmc.mil /marinelink/mcn2000.nsf/main5/3929FFA25B538A0985256FE8006B7155?opendocument (886 words)

	Heavy Boat Company--Sadler
		A transportation heavy boat company's mission is to provide and operate landing craft, utility (LCU's), for transporting personnel and heavy cargo in offshore discharge operations, and to augment lighterage service in a harbor, in inland or coastal water, or on the open sea, including lighterage service required in joint amphibious or other waterborne tactical operations.
		An LCU is 115 feet long, 34 feet wide, and draws from 3 to 4 feet of water when fully loaded.
		An LCU prior to beaching had a large danforth anchor mounted on the after port side with 500' scope of one and an eighth inch cable that you let go as far off shore as possible to assist you in getting off the beach.
	academic.uofs.edu /faculty/gramborw/atav/sadler.htm (1659 words)

	Daily Commentary for 16 August 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The LCU (Landing Craft, Utility) is built for work, not show.
		Just like the landing craft in the World War II movies, the bow is a flat ramp that drops down for the vehicles and cargo to move onto and off of the beach.
		Tonight the LCU Manassas headed to Lae Island with a new weather balloon crew of two students, various supplies, and a man from the generator shop (to service the generators).
	octopus.gma.org /kwajex/daily.990816.html (558 words)

	JFC Press Release
		LCU negotiated the move by itself and chugged off to FS Foudre, a large French amphibious ship lying off shore.
		Hasnoot’s team of Marines landed at Porto Scudo beach and quickly made it possible for landing craft and vehicles from Dutch, French, Spanish and Italian amphibious ships to operate here.
		But communicator that he is, he climbed a nearby hill, managed to get a signal on his cellphone and told her he loved her.
	www.afsouth.nato.int /JFCN_Exercises/2004/Destined_Glory04/mediarelease_03.htm (737 words)

	Tank Landing Ships history, index
		The ma in deck was strengthened to accommodate a fully-equipped landing craft, tank (LCT).
		Derricks, booms, a nd winches were added to haul damaged landing craft on board for repairs, and flsmith, machine, and electrical workshops were provided on the main deck and tank deck.
		A stern gate to the tank deck permits unloading of amphibious tractors into t he water or the unloading of other vehicles into a landing craft, utility (LCU) or onto a pier.
	www.hazegray.org /danfs/amphib/lst.htm (1886 words)

	LCUs: Workhorse of the Amphibious Fleet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Landing Craft Utility, or LCU, was built for just this type of mission: transporting equipment and troops between shore and sea.
		LCUs are primarily used by LHA class amphibious assault ships, while the LCACs are used by the LHD class amphibs.
		We even had LCU 1657 help the Naval Special Clearance Team 1 house two dolphins aboard the craft for 8 days, in order to conduct mine countermeasures.
	www.navy.mil /search/display.asp?story_id=8296 (757 words)

	Seamen Jinhan Chen and Michael Kincade direct Landing Craft Utility 1634 to a boat ramp. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Seamen Jinhan Chen (left) and Michael Kincade direct Landing Craft Utility 1634 to a boat ramp at Kuwait Naval Base on Feb. 26, 2005.
		The landing craft will on-load Marines assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit and transport them to the amphibious dock landing ship USS Harpers Ferry (LSD 49).
		Chen and Kincade are assigned to Assault Craft Unit 1of Naval Amphibious Base, Coronado, Calif. DoD photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Richard J. Brunson, U.S. Navy.
	www.dod.gov /photos/Mar2005/050226-N-6932B-015.html (107 words)

	Motor Transport Corps
		This LCU carried supplies and equipment for units near the DMZ.
		Operating LCMs (landing craft, mechanized) and LCUs (landing craft, utility), these heavy and medium boat units delivered cargo up and down the Saigon and Mekong Rivers.
		It was not possible to establish fire bases for the artillery batteries in the Mekong Delta because there were few landing zones.
	www.transchool.eustis.army.mil /Museum/RIVERCANAL.htm (816 words)

	Army Logistician: What Army logisticians should know about the Navy
		These vessels are placed in the water to "land" (transport) forces and equipment ashore.
		LCUs are about 135 feet long; each has a crew of 14 sailors and can haul 125 tons of cargo.
		The LCAC hovers slightly above the land or the sea on an air cushion that allows it to access about 70 percent of the world's coastline, while conventional landing craft like the LCU and the LCM can land at only 15 percent of the world's coasts.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0PAI/is_6_35/ai_110459237 (1525 words)

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