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Landing Craft Tank
LCT(6)-1456

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
Landing Craft Tank (Mark 6):
  • Laid down, 11 October 1944, at Bison Shipbuilding Corp, North Tonawanda, N.Y.
  • Launched, 18 October 1944
  • Delivered and placed in service, 26 October 1944
  • During World War II LCT(6)-1456 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
    LCT Flotilla Thirty-Nine, LCDR. R. H. M. Cross USNR;
    LCT Group One Hundred Seventeen, LT. F J. Hoehn USNR
  • Placed out of service, date unknown
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 21 January 1946
  • Offered for sale by U.S. Department of the Interior, Surplus Property Office, Honolulu, T.H., 29 March 1946
  • Sold to Guy G. Beetle of Honolulu, T.H. for $4500 in March 1946, named renamed "Mahina Hou" (New Moon)
  • Final Disposition, date unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 143 to 160 t.(lt), 309 to 320 t.(fl)
    Length 119' 1" (ovl.)
    Beam 32' 8"
    Draft
    limiting 3' 9"
    maximum navigation 5'
    Speed 10 kts.
    Range 700 nautical miles at 7 kts.
    Complement
    1 officer
    12 enlisted
    Cargo Capacity 150 short tons
    Armament
    two single 20mm AA gun mounts
    four .50 cal. machine guns
    Armor
    wheelhouse 20lbs
    gun shields 10lbs
    Fuel Capacity Diesel 80 Bbls
    Propulsion
    three Grey Marine 6-71 Diesel engines
    two Diesel-drive 10Kw 120V. D.C.
    three propellers, 675shp
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    1018145601    		 1022k On May 22, 1946, seven men, three women and seven children; two of them babies set sail from Honolulu to Everett, Washington in Mahina Hou [Ex-LCT(6)1456]. Their goal was to eventually start a colony in Alaska. The trip from Hawaii to Washington State took nineteen days, arriving on June 10, 1946. They experienced high winds and 70 foot waves along the way. By July 1946 the group built a new community near Cordova Alaska and started operating the LCT under a new company called the "Alaska Allied Industries". They settled at Zaikof Bay on Montaque island in the entrance to Prince Edward sound. They built their camp, lumber mill, bunkhouse, cookhouse, four private cabins, storehouse and workshop with a lumber output of 10,000 feet per day.
    US National Archives and Recoreds Admnistration Identifier, NAID 405176280, File Unit: 438040-445022 photos 55, 58 and 61.    		 David Upton
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