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LSD - Landing Ships, Dock WWII version.
Ashland/Casa Grande Class

LSD-26 USS Tortuga
With this kit you'll be able to build any ship in the Class.
The two class are very close but for the placing of the Cranes.
Maybe one day!

• Displacement: 7930 tons (loaded)
• Length: 457'9"
• Beam: 72'
• Draft: 15'6" forward, 16'2" aft (seagoing loaded)
• Speed: 17 knots
• Range: 7,400 miles @ at knots
• Armament: 1 5"/38 DP, 2x2 40mm, 2x4 40mm, 16 20mm
• Complement: 17 officers, 249 enlisted
• 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.

Click on "LSD-##" for link to page with specifications, history, photographs (where available).

No.	Name	Comm.	Notes (: Lost)
LSD-1	Ashland	1943
LSD-2	Belle Grove	1943
LSD-16	Cabildo	1945
LSD-3	Carter Hall	1943
LSD-13	Casa Grande	1944
LSD-17	Catamount	1945
LSD-18	Colonial	1945
LSD-19	Comstock	1945
LSD-20	Donner	1945
LSD-4	Epping Forest	1943
LSD-5	Gunston Hall	1943
LSD-6	Lindenwald	1943
LSD-7	Oak Hill	1944
LSD-14	Rushmore	1944
LSD-25	San Marcos	1945
LSD-15	Shadwell	1944
LSD-26	Tortuga	1945
LSD-27	Whetstone	1945
LSD-8	White Marsh	1944