USS Denver (LPD-9)
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| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | 7 Jul 1964 |
| Launched: | 23 Jan 1965 |
| Commissioned: | 26 Oct 1968 |
| Decommissioned: | |
| Fate: | Template:Active in service |
| Homeport: | San Diego, California |
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| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 17000 tons |
| Length: | 570 ft (171 m) |
| Beam: | 84 ft (25.2 m) |
| Draught: | |
| Propulsion: | Two boilers, two steam turbines, two shafts, 24,000 shaft horsepower (18 MW) |
| Speed: | 21 knots |
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| Complement: | Crew: 24 officers, 396 enlisted, 900 Marines |
| Armament: | Two 25 mm Mk 38 guns; two Phalanx CIWS; and eight .50-calibre (12.7 mm) machine guns. |
| Aircraft: | Up to six CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters |
| Motto: | "A mile high ... a mile ahead" |
USS Denver (LPD-9), a Cleveland-class amphibious transport dock, is the third ship of the fleet to bear this name. Denver's keel was laid July 7th, 1964 at Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company, Seattle, Washington. She was launched January 23rd, 1965, christened by Mrs. John Love, wife of the Governor of Colorado, and commissioned October 26th, 1968.
See USS Denver for other ships of this name.
| Cleveland-class landing platform dock |
| Cleveland | Dubuque | Denver | Juneau | Coronado | Shreveport | Nashville |
| List of amphibious assault ships of the United States Navy |