History | |
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United States | |
Name: | Comstock |
Awarded: | 28 July 1943[1] |
Laid down: | 3 January 1945[1] |
Launched: | 28 April 1945 |
Commissioned: | 2 July 1945 |
Decommissioned: | 20 April 1970 |
Stricken: | 30 June 1976 |
Fate: | Sold to Taiwan, 17 October 1984 |
Taiwan | |
Name: | ROCS Chung Cheng (LSD-191) |
Acquired: | 17 October 1984 |
Decommissioned: | 29 October 2012 |
Status: | Sunk as artificial reef, 30 June 2015 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Casa Grande-class dock landing ship |
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Length: | 457 ft 9 in (139.5 m) overall |
Beam: | 72 ft 2 in (22.0 m) |
Draft: |
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Propulsion: | 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers, 2 Skinner Uniflow Reciprocating Steam Engines, 2 propeller shafts – each shaft 3,700 hp, at 240 rpm total shaft horse power 7,400, 2 11 ft 9 in diameter, 9 ft 9 in pitch propellers |
Speed: | 17 knots (31 km/h) |
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Boats & landing craft carried: |
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Capacity: | 22 officers, 218 men |
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Armament: |
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Aircraft carried: | modified to accommodate helicopters on an added portable deck |