USS Anchorage (LSD-36)
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| Missing image USS_Anchorage;10123604.jpg USS Anchorage (LSD-36) | |
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| Awarded: | June 29, 1965 |
| Laid down: | March 13, 1967 |
| Launched: | May 5, 1968 |
| Commissioned: | March 15, 1969 |
| Decommissioned: | October 1, 2003 |
| Struck: | March 8, 2004 |
| Fate: | Awaiting planned transfer to Taiwan. |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 14,095 tons (14,321 t) Full, 8,325 tons (8,459 t) Light, 5,570 tons (5,659 t) Dead Weight |
| Length: | 168.6 m (553 ft) |
| Beam: | 25.9 m (85 ft) |
| Draft: | 6.1 m (20 ft) |
| Propulsion: | Steam Turbines |
| Speed: | 22 knots (41 km/h) |
| Complement: | 53 officers, 771 enlisted |
| Armament: | Two 20mm Phalanx CIWS, two Mk-38 machine guns, four .50 machine guns |
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USS Anchorage (LSD-36) was a dock landing ship of the United States Navy. She was lead ship of the Anchorage-class as well as the first ship in the navy to be named after the city in Alaska.
Anchorage was awarded to Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi on June 29, 1965 and her keel was laid down on March 13, 1967. She was launched on May 5, 1968 and commissioned on March 15, 1969.
In the ship's 34 years of service, she completed 19 deployments in the western Pacific and became the most decorated dock landing ship on the west coast.
Anchorage participated in numerous military operations. At the end of the Vietnam War, the ship carried Marines back to the United States as a part of the US withdrawal from Vietnam.
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In 1991, she served in Operation Desert Storm and later in 2000 she was used to assist the USS Cole (DDG-67) following her bombing in Yemen.
In July 2003, Anchorage returned to its homeport at San Diego, California after supporting Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. She was decommissioned on October 1, 2003.
Transfer to Taiwan was approved by the United States Senate in November 2003. Scheduled to replace the former Comstock (LSD-19), now Chung Cheng.