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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