 Portland stands out of the harbor at the Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek, Virginia, 2003
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| History | |
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| Name | Portland |
| Namesake | |
| Ordered | 25 February 1966 |
| Laid down | 5 May 1968 |
| Launched | 20 December 1969 |
| Commissioned | 3 October 1970 |
| Decommissioned | 4 August 2003 |
| Stricken | 8 March 2004 |
| Nickname(s) | Sweet Pea |
| Fate | Sunk as a target, 25 April 2004 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement | 14,181 long tons (14,409 t) |
| Length | 553 ft (169 m) |
| Beam | 84 ft (26 m) |
| Draft | 20 ft (6.1 m) |
| Propulsion | 2 shafts; 2 turbines; two 600 psi (4.1 MPa) boilers |
| Speed | 22 knots |
| Complement | 26 officers and 396 enlisted |
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The second USS Portland was a US Navy Anchorage class dock landing ship built at General Dynamics Quincy Shipbuilding Division at Quincy, Massachusetts, and commissioned in 1970.[1] Portland was decommissioned in 2003 and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register in 2004. It was sunk as a target during an exercise off the Virginia coast later that year.
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Citations
- ^ Friedman, pp. 619–620
Bibliography
- Friedman, Norman (1995). "United Kingdom". In Chumbley, Stephen (ed.). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. pp. 544–634. ISBN 1-55750-132-7.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to USS Portland (LSD-37).
- Naval Vessel Register
- USS Portland (LSD-37) page at Military.com
- USS Portland (LSD-37) page at Navsite
- USS Portland (LSD-37) page at Navsource Online
- Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
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