Spain: Navantia Cuts Steel for First LCM-1E High Speed Landing Craft

Navantia has celebrated the steel cutting 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

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Press Release, October 29, 2012; Image: navantia