Dock Landing Ship

LSD 31   -   USS Point Defiance

 

 

 

USS Point Defiance (LSD 31)

US Navy photo

Type, Class:

 

Dock Landing Ship; Thomaston - class;

Builder:

 

Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi, USA

STATUS:

 

Laid down: November 23, 1953

Launched: September 28, 1954

Commissioned: March 31, 1955

Decommissioned: September 30, 1983

Laid up in the Reserve Fleet.
Struck from the Naval Register - February 24, 1992.
Sold to Pegasus Inc. - September 29, 1995.
Repossessed by the Navy - July 1, 1997.
Custody transferred to MARAD - December 18, 1998.
Laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia, California.
Final Disposition: fate unknown.

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 Point Defiance (LSD 31):

 

 

 

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