Recherche sur le Landing Craft Swimmer Reconnaissance (LCSR)

[Rob1]

Je cherche à creuser une info sur un type d'embarcation US testée à la fin des années 1950, équipée d'un système de récupération de nageurs conçu par Robert E. Fulton (aussi inventeur du système de ramassage sol-air Skyhook). Passage trouvé dans un livre :

Fulton tested the system first with his own sons in Long Island Sound and then worked with the navy to perfect it in tests in the Virgin Islands, where the teams went for winter training, and in Puget Sound. The navy was so enthusiastic about the system that special boats were built, designed to be carried as part of the gear that accompanied the teams as they traveled with the fleet. But there were others in the navy who resented these special teams with all their special equipment.

Just before they were ready to deploy, the sea sled boats were assigned to other navy units, and the teams were told to keep on using the old rope sling method of recovery, which is still in use today. No one ever gave Fulton a sound explanation of what had happened, but the result, as he puts it, was that "the whole thing went down the drain."

Les embarcations étaient appelées Landing Craft Swimmer Reconnaissance (LCSR) - à ne pas confondre avec une embarcation plus petite, le LCSR(L) de 36 pieds).

Est-ce que du monde peut aider à retracer le parcours de ces embarcations ? Je veux dire, leurs unités d'appartenance successives.

Elles sont mentionnées dans des éditions du Jane's Fighting Ships, du Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships ou du Bluejacket Manual, mais seulement dans le lexique. Le US Small Combatants de Norman Friedman n'en parle que d'un point de vue technique. Rien sur leurs unités ou leurs bases d'attache.