Moss Point Marine Delivers First Of Two Navy Landing Craft

The first of two 135-foot, Landing Craft Utility (LCU) vessels being built by Moss Point Marine, Inc., Escatawpa, Miss., under an $8.6- million contract with the U.S. Navy, has been delivered.

The all-steel, twin-engine landing craft, designated LCU-1680, is capable of carrying three M-48 tanks and other vehicles or artillery and their associated personnel over hinged bow ramps directly on to the beach.

After a beach landing or loading, the boat is able to retract from the beach under its own power.

The LCU is 134 feet 9 inches in length, with a 29-foot beam, and a molded draft (to top of bulwark) of 12 feet 6 inches. Displacement at full load is 404 tons. The boat's two Detroit Diesel 12V71TI diesel engines develop a total of 850 shp and can drive the vessel at 11 knots.

Accommodations for a crew of two officers and 12 enlisted men are provided.

Moss Point Marine, Inc., is one of the Trinity Marine Group shipyards which are owned by Trinity Industries, Inc., Dallas, Texas. Other shipyards in the group are Halter Marine Inc.'s facilities at Moss Point, Miss., and Lockport, La., Equitable/Halter shipyards in New Orleans and Madisonville, La., and Gretna Machine and Iron Works in Harvey, La.

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Maritime Reporter Magazine, page 21, Apr 1988

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