LCS(L)-5
1944
(Neptun NE-1389c)
- Class: LCS(L)3 - 130 landing craft support (large) of 1944
- Displacement: 250 tons light; 387 tons full load
- Dimensions: 158 x 23 x 5 ft.
- Machinery: diesels, twin shafts, BHP 1,600 = 12 knots
- Armament: 1-3in/50, 4-40mm (2x2), 4-20mm guns; 10 Mk 7 rocket launchers
- Complement: 70
- Builder: George Lawley & Sons, Neponset, MA
- Keel Laid: 17 Jul 1944
- Launched: 27 Jul 1944
- Commissioned: 21 Aug 1944
- Decommissioned: 31 Oct 1946
- Notes: Initial version of Landing Craft Support (Large) Mk 3. The twin 40mm mounts were director-controlled, but the 3in mount was not. Later craft replaced the 3in with a single 40mm, and late-production units with a director-controlled twin 40mm.
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