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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.
Kit#  AX138 - $37.95

• 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