Name: | L S T 3018 |
Type: | Tank Landing Craft (completed as cargo ship) |
Launched: | 12/06/1945 |
Completed: | 06/1949 (see comments) |
Builder: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd |
Yard: | Hebburn |
Yard Number: | 680 |
Dimensions: | 2140disp - 4820disp, 316.0 x 50.0 x 8.0(draft)ft; |
(1959: 3915grt, 2488nrt, 346.8 x 54.0 x 27.0ft) | |
Engines: | 2 x T4cyl (18.5, 31, & 38.5, 38.5 x 30ins), 5500ihp |
Engines by: | George Clark (1938) Ltd, Sunderland |
Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 13.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | n/a |
History: | |
1945 | The Admiralty, London (incomplete) |
06/1949 | EG Fontes & Cia, Rio de Janeiro; renamed RIO MINHO |
1955 | L Figueiredo Navagacao SA, Rio de Janeiro; renamed SAO PEDRO |
No later history known | |
Comments: | Launched for The Admiralty, London |
Armed with 1 x 12pdr & 6 x 1 x 20mm guns | |
Designated an LST(3), a UK built variant of the USA built LST(2) | |
The LST(3) were rivetted construction & steam engines rather than welded & diesels | |
Capacity of 18 x 40-ton, or 20 x 25-ton or 30 x 16-ton tanks | |
06/1949: Converted to cargo ship and completed at Rio de Janeiro | |
Listed in LR 1959, but deleted prior to 1963 |