Dock Landing Ship

LSD 30   -   USS Fort Snelling

 

 

 

USS Fort Snelling (LSD 30)

US Navy photo

Type, Class:

 

Dock Landing Ship; Thomaston - class;

Builder:

 

Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi, USA

STATUS:

 

Laid down: August 17, 1953

Launched: July 16, 1954

Commissioned: January 24, 1955

Decommissioned: September 28, 1984

Custody transferred to MARAD, September 7, 1989.
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.

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 Fort Snelling (LSD 30):

 

 

 

patches

 

 

 

 

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