Teluk Semangka-class tank landing ship

The Teluk Semangka class is a class of tank landing ships operated by the Indonesian Navy. The ships were built by the Korea-Tacoma Shipyard (now Hanjin Heavy Industries), Masan, South Korea in the early 1980s.

Design
The class design was based on the LST-542-class tank landing ship. The class has a length of 100 m, a beam of 14.4 m, with a draught of 4.2 m and their displacement is 3,750 LT at full load. The ships is powered by two diesel engines, with total sustained power output of 12,800 hp-metric distributed in two shaft. Teluk Semangka class has a speed of 15 kn, with range of 7,500 NM while cruising at 13 kn.

Teluk Semangka class has a capacity of 200 troops, 1800 LT of cargo (which includes 17 main battle tanks), and 2 (4 for Teluk Semangka and Teluk Mandar) LCVPs on davits. The ships has a complement of 90 personnel, including 13 officers. Two last ships of the class, Teluk Ende and Teluk Banten, are command ships and has distinguishing features such as the LCVP davits located forward of the bridge and the exhaust vents above the waterlines instead of funnels found on the other ships.

The ships are armed with three single Bofors 40 mm L/70 guns, two single Rheinmettal 20 mm autocannons, and two single DShK 12.7 mm heavy machine guns. The command variant has same weaponry with one less 40 mm gun.

It was noted that Teluk Ende was outfitted as a hospital ship but later was reverted back to landing ship and the Red Cross markings were removed.

The ships has helicopter decks in the amidships and aft for small to medium helicopter such as Westland Wasp or MBB Bo 105, with the command variants having hangar facility and helicopter deck in the aft with provisions for up to 3 Eurocopter AS332 Super Puma helicopters.