USS Portland LPD 27
USS Portland LPD 27 Navy Ship
The second
ship, dock landing ship USS Portland (LSD 37), named for the cities of the same
name in Maine and Oregon, was commissioned Oct. 3, 1970. Over the course of
nearly 33 years of service, she participated in a number of important
operations, including the 1976 evacuation of American citizens from Lebanon,
the 1983 multi-national peacekeeping mission to Beirut, Lebanon, and deployment
of Marines to Kuwait in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
The future
Portland is the 11th San Antonio-class ship. These ships are designed to
support embarking, transporting, and landing elements of more than 800 Marines
with both a flight deck, which accommodates CH-53E Sea Stallion, and MV-22
Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft, and a well deck, which can launch and recover
landing craft and amphibious vehicles.
San
Antonio-class ships are versatile players in maritime security with the ability
to support a variety of amphibious assault, special operations or expeditionary
warfare missions, operating independently or as part of amphibious ready
groups, expeditionary strike groups, or joint task forces. In addition to
performing their primary mission, San Antonio-class ships have conducted
anti-piracy operations, provided humanitarian assistance and supported foreign
disaster relief operations around the world.
USS Portland
(LPD 27) is the 684-foot-long ship is designed to handle both humanitarian and
military missions and has a crew of close to 500 on hand for Saturday morning's
event. The ship, which cost $1.6 billion, is designed to accommodate upwards of
800 marines along with armored vehicles, tanks and other equipment. The Ship
Was Commissioned On The Morning Of Saturday, April 21, 2018, at USACE Terminal 2 in
Portland, Oregon.
The 25,000-ton
Portland was built by Huntington Ingalls Industries in Pascagoula, Mississippi.
The ship is 684 feet in length, has a beam of 105 feet, and a navigational
draft of 23 feet. The ship is powered by four sequentially turbocharged marine
Colt-Pielstick Diesels and two shafts to speeds up to 22 knots.
It includes the
variety of Navy and Marine Corps equipment the 25,000-ton ship can carry,
including tanks, armored vehicles, trucks, bulldozers, fork lifts, a large
hovercraft and even an Osprey. The vessel also carries extensive medical
facilities, including operating rooms, intensive care units and a 24-bed
hospital ward that can be used during humanitarian missions.
On April 21st (04/21/2018)
the US Navy will commission USS Portland (LPD-27) in her namesake city,
Portland, Oregon. She is the third navy ship to bear the name Portland. Mrs
Bonnie Amos, the ship's sponsor, will give the call to man the rails and bring
the ship to life. An LPD is a warship that embarks, transports and lands
elements of an amphibious Force for expeditionary warfare.
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