Dock Landing Ship

LSD 29   -   USS Plymouth Rock

 

 

 

USS Plymouth Rock (LSD 29)

US Navy photo

Type, Class:

 

Dock Landing Ship; Thomaston - class;

Builder:

 

Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi, USA

STATUS:

 

Laid down: May 4, 1953

Launched: May 7, 1954

Commissioned: November 29, 1954

Decommissioned: September 30, 1983

 

Custody transferred to MARAD.
Laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet.
Struck from the Naval Register, February 24, 1992.
Final Disposition: sold by MARAD for scrap

to Peck Recycling, Richmond, Virginia, August 25, 1995.

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 / Thomaston - class

 

ship images

 

Photo credits: US Navy, US Naval Historical Center

 

Namesake & History:

 

 

USS Plymouth Rock (LSD 29):

 

 

 

patches

 

 

 

 

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