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The LCM-8 ("Mike Boat") is a river boat and mechanized landing craft used by the United States Navy and Army during the Vietnam War and subsequent operations. They are currently used by governments and private organizations throughout the world. The acronym stands for "Landing Craft Mechanized, Mark 8".
Two British LCM(1)s after the Dieppe Raid 1942. The landing craft, mechanised Mark I, was an early British model. It was able to be slung under the davits of a liner or on a cargo ship boom with the result that it was limited to a 16-ton tank.
Maneuver Support Vessel (Light) or MSV(L) is the US Army's replacement for the Vietnam-era Landing Craft Mechanized 8 (LCM-8 or “Mike Boat”) that had been in service since 1959. Characteristics [ edit ]
Runnymede class large landing craft – 35; Landing Craft Mechanized. LCM-8, Mod 1 - 34; LCM-8, Mod 2 - 6; Tug boats. MGen. Nathanael Greene-class tugboat – 6;
Runnymede-class large landing craft (35 built) MGen. Nathanael Greene-class large coastal tugs (6 built) General Frank S. Besson-class logistics support vessels (8 built) LCM-8 Landing Craft Mechanized - (40 built) The Army has a fleet of approximately 132 watercraft, operated by units of the U.S. Army Transportation Corps. [13]
The first LSDs could carry 36 Landing Craft Mechanized (LCM) at 16 knots (30 km/h) in a flooding well deck, the first ships with this capability. Late in the war they were modified with the addition of a temporary superdeck over the well deck; this could carry vehicles, support helicopter operations, or be removed for outsized cargo.
Mechanized utility and landing craft were the kind used during the second world war and, while the mechanized landing craft of today are similar in construction, many improvements have been made. For example, landing craft (such as the LCM-8 of the US Navy ) are capable of a military lift of 183 metric tons (180 long tons) at a speed of 22 km/h ...
Compared to the Ashland and Casa Grande-class dock landing ships of World War II, the ships of this class were about a third larger and five knots faster. [3] The class was designed to be able to transport: 3 Landing Craft Utility, or; 9 LCM-8 Landing Craft Mechanized, or; 16 LCM-6, or; ca. 50 LVT-5 or later LVTP-7.