Navantia Starts the Cut of Steel for the First LCM-1E High Speed Landing Craft for Australia

26 Oktober 2012

LCM-1E High Speed Landing Craft (photo : Navantia) 

Navantia has celebrated last October the cut of steel of the first LCM-1E high speed landing craft, of a series of 12 that Navantia will build for the Royal Australian Navy, to be operating on board the ALHD Canberra and ALHD Adelaide

These units are identical to the LCM-1E high speed landing crafts built by Navantia and in service with the Spanish Navy since 2007 and 2008.

Each LCM-1E  weights 110 tonnes. The first four will arrive in 2014, when the first of the new ALHDs becomes operational.

The main characteristics are:

- Lenght overall: 23.30 m

- Floatation length: 21.27 m

- Width: 6.40 m

- Depth: 2.80 m

- Propulsion: two 809 kW diesel engines, two waterjerts propellers.

- Speed: > 20 knots

- Autonomy: 190 miles at full load

(Navantia)