USS Fort Mandan (LSD-21)

USS Fort Mandan (LSD-21)


Career (United States)
Name: USS Fort Mandan (LSD-21)
Laid down: 2 January 1945
Launched: 2 June 1945
Commissioned: 31 October 1945
Decommissioned: 23 January 1971
Fate: Transferred to Greece, 23 January 1971
Struck: 8 February 1980
Motto: Victoriam Portamus
Nickname: "The Fort"
Career (Greece)
Name: Nafkratousa (L153)
Acquired: 23 January 1971
Decommissioned: 29 February 2000
Fate: Sold for scrap, November 2001
General characteristics
Displacement: 7,930 tons (loaded),
4,032 tons (light draft)
Length: 457 ft 9 in (139.52 m), overall
Beam: 72 ft 2 in (22.00 m)
Draft:
  • 8 ft 2.5 in (2.502 m) fwd,
    10 ft 0.5 in (3.061 m) aft (light)
  • 15 ft 5.5 in (4.712 m) fwd,
    16 ft 2 in (4.93 m) aft (loaded)
Propulsion:
  • 2 Babcock and Wilcox boilers
  • 2 geared turbines
  • 2 propeller shafts - each shaft 3,700 hp (2,800 kW) @ 240 rpm; 7,400 shp (5,500 kW) total
  • 2 11 ft 9 in (3.58 m) diameter, 9 ft 9 in (2.97 m) pitch propellers
Speed: 17 knots (31 km/h) (31 km/h)
Endurance: 8,000 nautical miles @ 15 knots (15,000 km @ 28 km/h)
Boats & landing
craft carried:

One of the following:

  • 3 × LCT (Mk V or VI) each w/ 5 medium tanks
  • 2 × LCT (Mk III or IV)
    each w/ 12 medium tanks
  • 14 × LCM (Mk III)
    each w/ 1 medium tank
  • 1,500 long tons (1,500 t) cargo
  • 47 × DUKW
  • 41 × LVT
  • Any combination of landing vehicles and landing craft up to capacity
Capacity: 22 officers, 218 men
Complement: 17 officers, 237 men (ship);
6 officers, 30 men (landing craft)
Armament:
  • 1 × 5 in / 38 cal. DP gun
  • 2 × 40 mm quad AA guns
  • 2 × 40 mm twin AA guns
  • 16 × 20 mm AA guns
Aircraft carried: modified to accommodate helicopters on an added portable deck

USS Fort Mandan (LSD-21) was a Casa Grande-class dock landing ship of the United States Navy, named in honor of Fort Mandan, the encampment at which the Lewis and Clark Expedition wintered in 1804–1805, in what is now North Dakota.

Read more about USS Fort Mandan (LSD-21):  USS Fort Mandan (LSD-21), HNS Nafkratousa (L153), References

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