Dock Landing Ship

LSD 35   -   USS Monticello

 

 

 

USS Monticello (LSD 35)

US Navy photo

Type, Class:

 

Dock Landing Ship; Thomaston - class;

Builder:

 

Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi, USA

STATUS:

 

Laid down: June 6, 1955

Launched: August 10, 1956

Commissioned: March 29, 1957

Decommissioned: October 1, 1985

Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet.
Title transferred to the MARAD.
Struck from the Naval Register - February 24, 1992.
Sold to Pegasus Inc. - September 29, 1995.

Repossessed by the Navy - July 1, 1997.
Transferred to MARAD - December 18, 1998.
Laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia, California.

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 Monticello (LSD 35):

 

 

 

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