Dock Landing Ship

LSD 15   -   USS Shadwell

 

 

 

USS Shadwell (LSD 15)

US Navy photo

Type, Class:

 

Dock Landing Ship; Casa Grande - class;

Builder:

 

Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co.; Newport News, Virginia, USA

STATUS:

 

Laid down: January 17, 1944

Launched: May 14, 1944

Commissioned: July 24, 1944

Decommissioned: July 10, 1947

laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Texas Group, Orange, Texas

Recommissioned: September 20, 1950

Decommissioned: March 9, 1970

Fate: Laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, James River, Fort Eustis, Virginia.
Struck from the Naval Register, November 1, 1976.
Final Disposition: ex-Shadwell is in the custody of the Naval Research Laboratory/Office of Naval Research, Fire Research Det. Little Sands Island, Mobile Bay, Mobile, Alabama as the US Navy damage control test ship.

Homeport:

 

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Namesake:

 

> see history, below;

Ship's Motto:

 

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Technical Data:

(Measures, Propulsion,

Armament, Aviation, etc.)

 

see: INFO > Dock Landing Ship / Casa Grande - class

 

ship images

 

Photo credits: US Navy, US Naval Historical Center

 

Namesake & History:

 

 

USS Shadwell (LSD 15):

 

 

 

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