Landing Craft Support (Family)

Description

Landing Craft Support is a family of amphibious warfare vessels, originally designed for the United States Navy operations in the Pacific Theater. Two major types existed: Large and Medium, with British Fairmile Marine building their own iterations of the designs. Nearly all of these vessels survived until the end of World War Two, with many finding continued post-war use in both: military and civilian hands across the world. Nowadays, USS LCS(L)(3)-102 is open as a museum vessel in a town of Vallejo in California, United States.

Vehicles

Rank III

• LCM(6) Zippo
• Fairmile H LCS(L)(2)

Rank V

• LCS(L)(3)
• Asagao (YTE-01)
• Alano

Armament comparison

This comperision is intended to offer a bird's eye view. For more detailed information, please, refer to the individual articles.

Vessel		BR (RB)	40 mm Bofors	High-calibre gun	20 mm Oerlikon	12.7 mm AN-M2	7.62 mm	Other
	LCS(L)(3)	3.7	2 x 2	1 x 3-inch Mark 10	4 x 2
	Asagao (YTE-01)	3.7	2 x 2	1 x 3-inch Mark 10	4	4
	Alano	3.7	2 x 2 + 1		4	4
	LCM(6) Zippo	2.3	1		1	3	4	2 x Flamethrower
	Fairmile H LCS(L)(2)	2.3		1 x 6pdr OQF Mk.V	2	1 x 2		1 x Ordnance ML 4.2-inch mortar

History

The Landing Craft Support (Large) were a special type of ship for naval landing support, armed with Cannons and Machineguns, and were used for landing battles during World War II, after World War II these were given to other nations and used as anti-submarine or coast guard.

The LCS (L) class is know as

• Yuri-class in Japan Service
• Alano-class in Italian Service

See also

• Landing Vehicle, Tracked
• Daihatsu-class Landing Craft
• Ka-Chi
• AF D3 (converted MF Typ A landing craft)

External links

• [Wikipedia] Landing Craft Support
• [Navypedia] Amphibious Ships And Craft
• [NavSource] Photo Archives: LCS(L)(3)