Newport class tank landing ship

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USS Newport (LST-1179)
USS Newport (LST-1179)
Class overview
Builders: Philadelphia Naval Shipyard
National Steel and Shipbuilding Company
Operators: Formerly United States Navy, sold to a number of other navies.
Preceded by: De Soto County class tank landing ship
Built: 1966-1972
In commission: 1969-2002 (USN)
Completed: 20
Active: 0 (US)
Laid up: 4
Lost: 4
Retired: 12
General characteristics
Type: Tank Landing Ship
Displacement: approx. 4,793 tons light loaded,
8,500 tons fully loaded
Length: 522 ft (159 m)
Beam: 70 ft (21 m)
Draft: 17.4 ft (5.3 m)
Propulsion: 6 ALCO diesels (3 per shaft)
16,000 shaft horsepower;
800 hp GE bow thruster.
2 Hydraulically Controlled Variable Pitch Reversible Props and 1 Variable Pitch Bow Thruster
3 ALCO/GE Generators (750 kW, 1201 A each)
Speed: 20+ knots (37+ km/h)
27 knots (50 km/h) confirmed in 1991.[citation needed]
Troops: Marines - approximately 400 including officers and enlisted, when embarked
Complement: Navy - 14 officers, 210 enlisted

Newport class tank landing ships are an improved class of American tank landing ship (LST), intended to provide substantial advantages over their World War II-era predecessors. Of the twenty completed, four were sunk as targets, four were retained as inactive reserves and the rest were sold to foreign navies.

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[edit] Class description

Twenty ships of the Newport tank landing ship class were built to replace the traditional bow door design LST.

The Newport class has higher speeds and trimmer lines than the LSTs of World War II. The vessels have two huge derricks used to extend and retract a bow ramp. That 110-foot (34 m) ramp has a 75-ton capacity.

The Newport class is the first amphibious ship to be fitted with an internal side propulsion unit located below the waterline near the bow. The bow thruster allows the bow to be pushed from side to side while the stern remains nearly stationary.

This class of LST also has a stern gate. It allows them to load and launch amphibious assault vehicles, and permits sterngate marriages with Landing Craft Utility (LCU) units.

[edit] Units

Ship Name Hull No. Builder Commission–
Decommission		 Fate Link
Newport LST-1179 Philadelphia Naval Shipyard 1969-1992 Sold to Mexican Navy as Papaloapan (ARM A-411) [1]
Manitowoc LST-1180 Philadelphia Naval Shipyard 1970-1993 Sold to Republic of China Navy as ChongHe (LST-232) [2]
Sumter LST-1181 Philadelphia Naval Shipyard 1970-1993 Sold to Republic of China Navy as ChongPing (LST-233) [3]
Fresno LST-1182 National Steel & SB 1969-1993 Inactive reserve, 4/08/1993 [4]
Peoria LST-1183 National Steel & SB 1970-1994 Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise, 7/12/2004 [5]
Frederick LST-1184 National Steel & SB 1970-2002 Sold to Mexican Navy as Usumacinta (ARM A-412), 11/22/2002 [6]
Schenectady LST-1185 National Steel & SB 1970-1993 Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise, 11/23/2004 [7]
Cayuga LST-1186 National Steel & SB 1970-1994 Sold to Brazilian Navy as NDCC Mattoso Maia (G-28) [8]
Tuscaloosa LST-1187 National Steel & SB 1970-1993 Inactive reserve, 2/18/1994 [9]
Saginaw LST-1188 National Steel & SB 1971-1994 Sold to Royal Australian Navy to as HMAS Kanimbla [10]
San Bernardino LST-1189 National Steel & SB 1971-1995 Sold to Chilean Navy to as Valdivia (LST 93) [11]
Boulder LST-1190 National Steel & SB 1971-1994 Inactive reserve, 2/28/1994 [12]
Racine LST-1191 National Steel & SB 1971-1993 Inactive reserve, 10/02/1993 [13]
Spartanburg County LST-1192 National Steel & SB 1971-1994 Sold to Royal Malaysian Navy as KD Sri Indera Pura (A-1505) [14]
Fairfax County LST-1193 National Steel & SB 1971-1994 Sold to Royal Australian Navy as HMAS Manoora [15]
La Moure County LST-1194 National Steel & SB 1971-2000 Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise, 7/10/2001 [16]
Barbour County LST-1195 National Steel & SB 1972-1992 Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise, 4/06/2004 [17]
Harlan County LST-1196 National Steel & SB 1972-1995 Sold to Spanish Navy as Pizarro (L-42) [18]
Barnstable County LST-1197 National Steel & SB 1972-1994 Sold to Spanish Navy as Hernán Cortés (L-41) [19]
Bristol County LST-1198 National Steel & SB 1972-1994 Sold to Moroccan Navy as Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdallah (407) [20]

[edit] Image gallery

The USS Frederick (LST-1184) with its bow ramp dropped to take on U.S. Marines and equipment.

Aft view of Spartanburg County returning from Operation Desert Storm, 1991.

Racine bow view with bow ramp sitting on deck.

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