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	Tank landing ship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The tank landing ship (LST, for "Landing Ship, Tank") was created during World War II to support amphibious operations by carrying significant quantities of vehicles, cargo, and troops directly onto an unimproved shore.
		This scheme distributed the ship's weight over a greater area enabling her to ride higher in the water when in landing trim.
		They participated in the invasions of Sicily, Italy, Normandy, and southern France in the European Theater and were an essential element in the island-hopping campaigns in the Pacific which culminated in the liberation of the Philippines and the capture of Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tank_landing_ship (2224 words)

	Chinese Defence Today :: Type 072-II (Yuting Class) Large Landing Ship
		As the most capable amphibious warfare ship in service with the PLA Navy before 2003, the Type 072-II (Yuting class) large landing ship project was initially proposed by China National Shipbuilding Co. (CNSC) and the Equipment Department of the PLA Navy in 1983 as a successor to the Type 072 (Yukan class) large landing ship.
		The first batch of six ships are fitted with three Type 76 dual-37 mm 63 calibre manual anti-aircraft guns fire shells at a rate of 400 rounds/min to a range of 9.4 km for airborne targets.
		A flight deck with a single landing pad is provided for a medium helicopter such as SA 321Ja or Z-8, or two smaller helicopters such as Z-9C.
	www.sinodefence.com /navy/amphibious/yuting.asp (676 words)

	ROBOTECH: Zentraedi Naval Vessels - Quiltra Queleual Landing Ship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		For instance, a ship can carry additional fuel tanks on all decks (tanker version), or supplies on several decks and troops on the other decks (landing ship version), or fuel and cargo, and this in any configuration required.
		As part of their efforts, small flotillas of Tou Redir ships were sent into the Empire to raid the interstellar commerce which provided the Tirolian treasury a large part of its wealth.
		The landing ship configuration could carry 12,000 troops, their weapons and supplies, and the means to land these on a planet; however, this number of troops was rarely needed save for planetary invasions.
	www.artemisgames.com /robotech/Naval/zen_LandingShip.html (2626 words)

	Wood County
		During that deployment, the tank landing ship visited Polensa Bay, Majorca, Spain; and the British Crown Colony of Malta, where she embarked a detachment of British commandoes that she eventually landed at Bomba, Libya, during an exercise.
		The tank landing ship took part in an amphibious exercise off Sardinia in January of 1967 and in two more during March before undertaking a role in a joint amphibious evolution with ships of the Italian Navy at Tagliamento, Italy, and another exercise off Sardinia in April.
		The tank landing ship was also used as a demonstration ship for the amphibious school—a stationary training aid— through the summer of 1969.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/w10/wood_county.htm (1803 words)

	Basic LST (Landing Ship Tank) Information
		The British recognized the need for such ships after the debacle at Dunkirk in 1940, when they left behind tons of badly needed equipment because no vessels were available with the capability to bridge the gap between the sea and the land.
		Deep-draft ships were necessary to cross the ocean, and shallow-draft vessels were required to bridge the water gap.
		Some vessels called landing ships did not have the capability to off-load troops and supplies onto beaches; they were in fact simply transports or command-and-control vessels.
	home.comcast.net /~usslst173/lst173htmfiles/LST173_Basic_LST_Info.htm (1041 words)

	Dock Landing Ship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The United States Navy Dock Landing Ship (Navy hull classification LSD) was designed to support amphibious operations.
		These amphibious assault ships transport and launch amphibious craft and vehicles with their crews and embarked personnel.
		They are mainly used to carry Landing Craft Air Cushions (LCACs), as well as carrying United States Marines.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dock_Landing_Ship (107 words)

	USS Thomaston LSD-28 History of Landing Ship Docks
		The United States Navy Landing Ship Dock (LSD) class of ships support amphibious operations to transport and launch of amphibious craft and vehicles such as the Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC), conventional landing craft and helicopters along with their crews and embarked personnel which include United States Marine Corps personnel.
		This class could be identified from the earlier ships in that its ship had their main lifting cranes and smoke stacks offset from one side to the other.
		The remaining four ships of the class were built by General Dynamics at their Quincy, Massachusetts facility, all being launched during 1966-67 and commissioned between 1970-72.
	www.ussthomaston.com /history-lsd.html (2303 words)

	Landing Ship Tank - General History
		Of the 1051 ships of this type built during World War II 40 were lost during the war, 25 during action with the enemy.
		The request for a new type of landing ship was given to Niedermair by his superior, Captain (later Admiral) Edward Cochraine, then assistant head of the Design Division of the Bureau of Ships.
		Ships of this class are 522 feet in length with a beam of 69 feet.
	www.geocities.com /Pentagon/7312/History/LSTHistory.html (2252 words)

	Naval Technology - Ivan Rogov Class (Type 1174) - Large Landing Ship
		The Project 1174 Large Landing Ship was built by the Yantar Shipbuilding Plant at Kalingrad.
		The ship has the capacity for the military lift of one battalion of 520 marines and 25 tanks.
		The ship's helicopters are the Kamov Ka-27 or Ka-29.
	www.naval-technology.com /projects/ivan (633 words)

	Chinese Defence Today :: Type 072 (Yukan Class) Large Landing Ship
		A total of 7 ships had been built for the PLA Navy before the project was terminated in the 1990s due to the introduce of the more capable Type 072-II (Yuting class).
		Two ships of this class took part in the conflict with Vietnamese Navy near Nansha (Spratly) Islands in South China Sea in 1988, when the Chinese navy sank one Vietnamese ship and seriously damaged another one.
		The Type 072 is the first Chinese amphibious ship that utilises a destroyer-style bow with two side-hinged doors and a ramp to replace the old WWII-style flat-bow with a bottom-hinged door design.
	www.sinodefence.com /navy/amphibious/yukan.asp (462 words)

	Bay Class Alternative Landing Ship Logistics (ALSLs)
		The Bay Class Landing Ships Logistic (LSLs) are required to move men, equipment and stores to wherever they are required in the world, and be able to deploy them as a fighting force directly into battle.
		Neither name had ever been used before, although a ship renamed Largs, a former French armed merchant cruiser, was used by Britain as a landing ship during the Second World War and served as the HQ for Sword beach in the British sector of the D-Day landings.
		From an early stage it was envisaged that the new ships would be very different from the vessels they replaced: they would have greater storage space, a larger helicopter flight deck and the ability of offload an rough seas.
	www.btinternet.com /~warship/Today/bay.htm (1625 words)

	USS Anchorage Decommissioned
		Anchorage, the oldest dock landing ship in the Navy, was decommissioned Oct. 1 at Naval Base San Diego.
		USS Anchorage (LSD 36), the oldest dock landing ship in the Navy, was solemnly decommissioned and stricken from the active list after 34 years of service during a ceremony Oct. 1 at Naval Base San Diego.
		The ship’s commanding officer, Cmdr. Mark Cedrun, closed remarks after the ship’s colors was lowered for its last time and the commissioning pennant was struck, signaling an end to the ship’s active service.
	www.news.navy.mil /search/display.asp?story_id=9843 (546 words)

	RFA Empire Gull - Landing Ship (Tank) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Landing Ship Tanks were a new design of warship mass produced during the Second World War.
		The ships were flat bottomed with a shallow draught, allowing them to come inshore.
		The army's last landing ship tank, Empire Gull, was transferred to the Royal Fleet Auxiliary in 1970 along with the five
	www.btinternet.com /~warship/Postwar/RFA/landing.htm (139 words)

	US Navy Landing Ship Dock
		United States Ship Rushmore (LSD-47) is the seventh ship of the LSD-41 Whidbey Island class and the fourth ship of that class to serve in the Pacific Fleet.
		The MM aboard ship serves in the capacity of operating and maintaining the main propulsion machinery; producing power that runs the generators; compressing air for shipboard use; distilling water for general consumption; manipulating the pumps which transfer water in the scores of ballast tanks; and last, but not least, handling the paperwork for engineering administration.
		While the ship is steaming in formation, the Radarmen plot courses and speeds of shipping in the area, work out tactical situations on a maneuvering plotting sheet, and have control of the tactical radiotelephone circuits which maneuvers the entire formation.
	www.usscabildo.org /lsds.html (4807 words)

	Tank Landing Ships history, index
		The y participated in the invasions of Sicily, Italy, Normandy, and southern France in the European Theater and were an essential element in the island-hopping campaigns in the Pacific which culminated in the liberation of the Philippines and the capture of I wo Jima and Okinawa.
		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.
		Another successful conversion was the LST "Mother Ship." Thisv ersion of the standard LST hull had two Quonset huts erected on the main deck to accommodate 40 officers.
	www.hazegray.org /danfs/amphib/lst.htm (1886 words)

	DefenseLINK News: NAVY COMMISSIONS DOCK LANDING SHIP PEARL HARBOR (LSD 52)
		Pearl Harbor is the Navy's 4th Harpers Ferry class dock landing ship, which is a "cargo variant" configuration of the Whidbey Island class, therefore providing additional space for Marine Corps equipment.
		Ships of this class are vital to the U.S. Navy's strategic doctrine of forward presence and rapid deployment of troops and heavy equipment to remote and distant shores, "Forward...
		Dock landing ships and LCAC were successfully used in the rapid deployment of troops and equipment to Somalia in Operation "Restore Hope."
	www.defenselink.mil /releases/1998/b05291998_b271-98.html (298 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Asia / Singapore deploys landing ship to Iraq
		Singapore dispatched a troop landing ship with a crew of 180 to Iraq on Saturday in the city-state's latest military contribution to coalition forces there.
		SINGAPORE --Singapore dispatched a troop landing ship with a crew of 180 to Iraq on Saturday in the city-state's latest military contribution to coalition forces there.
		Singapore earlier deployed a troop landing ship, a C-130 transport plane and a KC-135 tanker aircraft to the Persian Gulf to aid Iraq's reconstruction efforts.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2004/11/27/singapore_deploys_landing_ship_to_iraq?mode=PF (186 words)

	Almaz Shipbuilding Co. Landing ship "Zubr"
		The Zubr air-cushion landing craft is intended to carry out over-the-beach landing of advanced detachments of amphibious landing troops and combat materiel, as well as fire support of their actions on shore.
		The middle part accommodates a compartment for armored vehicles to be landed with taxi tracks and loading/unloading ramps.
		The Zubr air-cushion landing craft won a bronze medal at the 44th Brussels Eureka '95 Salon of Innovations.
	www.almaz.spb.ru /home/product/zubr.asp (580 words)

	Landing Ship Dock (Auxillary) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		These ships were initially planned to undergo a Ship Life Extension Programme, but this was abandoned in favour of new-build ships.
		In the autumn 2002 the ALSL Bay Class Vessels adopted the new nomenclature of Landing Ship Dock Auxiliary, LSD(A).
		The ships are to be capable of offloading at sea, 'over the horizon'.
	www.mod.uk /dpa/projects/landing_ship_dock_auxillary.htm (533 words)

	Navy News - News Desk - News - New landing ship takes to the water (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The 16,000-ton landing ship was built in sections over the past two years, and assembled in the floating dock.
		RFA Largs Bay – officially designated a Landing Ship Dock (Auxiliary) or LSDA – is a large amphibious landing ship designed to deploy troops and their vehicles and equipment directly into operational areas.
		She and her three sisters have a large stern internal docking area to enable landing craft to load up, and a large flight deck area to operate all types of Royal Navy, RAF and Army helicopters.
	www.navynews.co.uk /articles/2003/0307/0003072901.asp (395 words)

	The Landing Ship Medium-45 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Marines, retired veterans, government officials and family members gathered to witness the massive ship on its 60th birthday and to support the donation to the museum.
		Before the dedication ended, the guests were asked to come aboard the ship to view for themselves the youth and beauty the great ship still maintained.
		"Ships, like all inanimate objects can have memories, but their memories are created by the people who own or serve.
	members.aol.com /sandscraper3/mcmlsm45.htm (765 words)

	Landing Ship - Royal Australian Navy
		The heavy lift ship is the first purpose built major amphibious ship in the Royal Australian Navy providing the Australian Defence Force with a heavy lift capability not available in any other Australian-owned ship.
		Essentially the ship is a multi purpose troop and roll-on / roll-off, heavy vehicle carrier.
		There are also facilities for helicopter and landing craft operations and a 70-ton capacity derrick.
	www.navy.gov.au /fleet/lsh.htm (166 words)

	USS Frederick Decommissioned: Navy's Last Tank Landing Ship Leaves the Fleet
		The Frederick is the last Newport-class tank landing ship in the U.S. Navy and played an active role in both the Vietnam Conflict and Operations Desert Shield/Desert Storm.
		Frederick was the naval reserve force's only amphibious ship and was also the last remaining tank landing ship to serve in the active naval fleet.
		Originally designed during WWII, tank landing ships supported the launch and recovery of troops and equipment directly onto the beachhead in support of an amphibious invasion via a bow ramp and embarked causeways.
	www.navy.mil /search/display.asp?story_id=3969 (806 words)

	Navy News - News Desk - News - Efforts made to preserve veteran landing ship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		A veteran landing ship was attracting the attention of preservation experts as she arrived at a Portsmouth shipyard.
		HMS Stalker, the last of the Mk 3 generation of Landing Ship (Tanks) or LSTs from World War II, has reached Pounds Shipyard at Tipner in Portsmouth Harbour.
		She was due to be scrapped, but was rescued by Pounds Shipyard and brought down to the South Coast, primarily to preserve her unique steam plant – the same machinery as was used in the Loch and Bay-class frigates of World War II.
	www.navynews.co.uk /articles/2003/0302/0003021401.asp (462 words)

	Jack Abraitis - M.L.B.W. Glossary - USN Ship Classes - WarShips, Amphibious Warfare Ships
		Although their capabilities are less than those of the new LSD-41 class, the ships of the Austin class, built between 1965-1971, were considered sufficiently modern to have their service lives extended, and the Navy had planned to inaugurate a SLEP program for all 11 of them commencing in early 1988.
		MISSION: Modern U.S. Navy Amphibious Assault Ships are called upon to perform as primary landing ships for major portions of the assault echelons of a Marine Expeditionary Force and Marine Expeditionary Brigade.
		Accordingly, ships of this class offload cargo and vehicles by means of a 112-foot ramp over their bow.
	www.princeton.edu /~abraitis/glosdocs/usnphib.htm (1759 words)

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		The concept for the LST was rooted in the need for transporting men and equipment across the seas and landing them on a shoreline that had not been developed as a commercial harbor.
		An excerpt from a July 1963 LST 1076 General Information Book states, "The function of the ship is to transport motor vehicles to a beach head and have them disembark under their own power ready for battle".
		The ability to land on undeveloped beaches would force the enemy to “spread out” their defensive manpower and firepower, while providing the means to deliver fighting forces and their equipment to an enemy shore.
	www.insidelst.com (291 words)

	LST-1 Landing Ship, Tank
		Within a few days, John Niedermair of the Bureau of Ships sketched out an awkwardlooking ship that proved to be the basic design for the more than 1,000 LST's which would be built during World War II.
		Another successful conversion was the LST "Mother Ship." This version of the standard LST hull had two Quonset huts erected on the main deck to accommodate 40 officers.
		First of her class, the new ship was designed to provide fuel, spare parts, technicians and facilities necessary to establish and operate an airstrip for patrol and carrier aircraft in locations where there were no base facilities.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/ship/lst-1.htm (1560 words)

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