
Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1940-1945
LSD-16 USS Cabildo
- Landing Ship, Dock:
- Displacement: 4960 tons (loaded)
- Length: 457'9"
- Beam: 72'
- Draft: 15'6" forward, 16'2" aft (seagoing loaded)
- Speed: 15 knots
- Range: 7,400 miles @ at knots
- Armament: 1 5"/38 DP, 2x2 40mm, 2x4 40mm, 16 20mm
- Complement: 17 officers, 249 enlisted
- Geared turbine engines, twin screws, 7,000 shaft h.p.
- Built at Newport News & Shipbuilding Co. and commissioned 15 March 1945
- LSDs carry 3 LCT (5) or (6). each with 5 medium tanks, or 2 LCT (3) or (4) each with 12 medium tanks, or 14 LCM (3) each with 1 medium tank, or 1,500 long tons cargo, or 41 LVT, or 47 DUKW; troops: 22 officers, 310 enlisted (including 40 in hammocks. Landing craft leave the flooded dock under ther own power, through stern gates.
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Last updated:
19 January 2008