Kansas City Structural Steel

Kansas City KS

The Kansas City Structural Steel Company was founded in 1907, by Howard Fitch and Olaf Smith. The main plant was on the site of an old smelting works at 21st Street and Metropolitan Avenue, on the Kaw River. During WWI they supplied structural steel and rudders to the Hog Island shipyard in Philadelphia. During WWII, they built 407 landing craft for the Navy: in addition to the 85 LCTs listed here, they built LCM(6)s and LCM(3)s, but the records are not clear on the details. To handle this output, they developed a second yard for outfitting, at a site on the Missouri River in the Fairfax district.

Customer Type Delivered Notes
LCT(5)-37 US Navy landing craft Aug 1942 to Britain as LCT-2037
LCT(5)-38 US Navy landing craft Aug 1942 to Britain as LCT-2038
LCT(5)-39 US Navy landing craft Aug 1942 to Britain as LCT-2039, lost 1944
LCT(5)-40 US Navy landing craft Aug 1942 to Britain as LCT-2040
LCT(5)-41 US Navy landing craft Aug 1942 to Britain as LCT-2041
LCT(5)-42 US Navy landing craft Aug 1942 to Britain as LCT-2042
LCT(5)-43 US Navy landing craft Aug 1942 to Britain as LCT-2043
LCT(5)-44 US Navy landing craft Aug 1942 to Britain as LCT-2044, lost 1944
LCT(5)-45 US Navy landing craft Aug 1942 to Britain as LCT-2045
LCT(5)-46 US Navy landing craft Sep 1942 to Britain as LCT-2046, lost 1944
LCT(5)-47 US Navy landing craft Sep 1942 to Britain as LCT-2047
LCT(5)-48 US Navy landing craft Sep 1942 to Britain as LCT-2048
LCT(5)-49 US Navy landing craft Sep 1942 to Britain as LCT-2049, lost 1944
LCT(5)-50 US Navy landing craft Sep 1942 to Britain as LCT-2050
LCT(5)-51 US Navy landing craft Sep 1942 to Britain as LCT-2051
LCT(5)-52 US Navy landing craft Sep 1942 to Britain as LCT-2052, lost 1944
LCT(5)-53 US Navy landing craft Sep 1942 to Britain as LCT-2053, lost 1942
LCT(5)-54 US Navy landing craft Sep 1942 to Britain as LCT-2054, lost 1942
LCT(5)-55 US Navy landing craft Sep 1942 to Britain as LCT-2055
LCT(5)-56 US Navy landing craft Sep 1942 to Britain as LCT-2056
LCT(5)-57 US Navy landing craft Sep 1942 to Britain as LCT-2057
LCT(5)-58 US Navy landing craft Oct 1942
LCT(5)-59 US Navy landing craft Sep 1942
LCT(5)-60 US Navy landing craft Oct 1942
LCT(5)-61 US Navy landing craft Oct 1942
LCT(5)-62 US Navy landing craft Oct 1942
LCT(5)-63 US Navy landing craft Oct 1942
LCT(5)-64 US Navy landing craft Oct 1942
LCT(5)-65 US Navy landing craft Oct 1942
LCT(5)-66 US Navy landing craft Oct 1942 sunk 1945
LCT(5)-67 US Navy landing craft Nov 1942
LCT(5)-68 US Navy landing craft Nov 1942
LCT(5)-69 US Navy landing craft Oct 1942
LCT(5)-70 US Navy landing craft Nov 1942
LCT(5)-71 US Navy landing craft Nov 1942 sunk 1943
LCT(5)-72 US Navy landing craft Nov 1942
LCT(6)-809 US Navy landing craft Dec 1943 sunk 1944
LCT(6)-810 US Navy landing craft Jan 1944 to Denmark 1963 as Brage (A544), struck 1967
LCT(6)-811 US Navy landing craft Jan 1944
LCT(6)-812 US Navy landing craft Jan 1944 target at Bikini
LCT(6)-813 US Navy landing craft Jan 1944
LCT(6)-814 US Navy landing craft Feb 1944
LCT(6)-815 US Navy landing craft Feb 1944
LCT(6)-816 US Navy landing craft Feb 1944 target at Bikini
LCT(6)-817 US Navy landing craft Feb 1944 sunk 1946
LCT(6)-818 US Navy landing craft Feb 1944 target at Bikini
LCT(6)-819 US Navy landing craft Feb 1944
LCT(6)-820 US Navy landing craft Feb 1944
LCT(6)-821 US Navy landing craft Mar 1944
LCT(6)-822 US Navy landing craft Mar 1944
LCT(6)-823 US Navy landing craft Mar 1944 lost 1944
LCT(6)-824 US Navy landing craft Mar 1944
LCT(6)-825 US Navy landing craft Mar 1944
LCT(6)-826 US Navy landing craft Apr 1944
LCT(6)-827 US Navy landing craft Apr 1944 later LCU-827, to Greece 1959 as Skiathos (L-152), struck 1992
LCT(6)-828 US Navy landing craft Apr 1944
LCT(6)-829 US Navy landing craft Apr 1944
LCT(6)-830 US Navy landing craft Apr 1944
LCT(6)-831 US Navy landing craft Apr 1944
LCT(6)-832 US Navy landing craft May 1944
LCT(6)-833 US Navy landing craft May 1944
LCT(6)-834 US Navy landing craft May 1944 to France 1946 as L-9093, condemned 1954 as Q8
LCT(6)-835 US Navy landing craft May 1944
LCT(6)-836 US Navy landing craft May 1944
LCT(6)-837 US Navy landing craft May 1944
LCT(6)-838 US Navy landing craft May 1944
LCT(6)-839 US Navy landing craft June 1944 destroyed 1947
LCT(6)-840 US Navy landing craft June 1944 later LCU-840, YFU-17
LCT(6)-841 US Navy landing craft June 1944
LCT(6)-842 US Navy landing craft June 1944
LCT(6)-843 US Navy landing craft June 1944 later AMCU-1
LCT(6)-844 US Navy landing craft July 1944 later AMCU-2
LCT(6)-845 US Navy landing craft July 1944
LCT(6)-846 US Navy landing craft July 1944
LCT(6)-847 US Navy landing craft July 1944
LCT(6)-848 US Navy landing craft Aug 1944
LCT(6)-849 US Navy landing craft Aug 1944 to China 1946
LCT(6)-850 US Navy landing craft Aug 1944 sold 1946
LCT(6)-1271 US Navy landing craft Aug 1944 later LCU-1271, to Taiwan 1958 as Ho Yung (L-495), struck 1978
LCT(6)-1272 US Navy landing craft Aug 1944
LCT(6)-1273 US Navy landing craft Aug 1944 later LCU-1273, to Chile 1960 as Grumete Tellez, struck 1986
LCT(6)-1274 US Navy landing craft Sep 1944
LCT(6)-1275 US Navy landing craft Sep 1944
LCT(6)-1276 US Navy landing craft Sep 1944
LCT(6)-1277 US Navy landing craft Sep 1944

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