USS Durham
_underway_1989.JPG) USS Durham off San Diego in 1989
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| History | |
|---|---|
 United States | |
| Name | Durham |
| Namesake | Durham |
| Builder | Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. |
| Laid down | 10 July 1967 |
| Launched | 29 March 1968 |
| Commissioned | 24 May 1969 |
| Decommissioned | 25 February 1994 |
| Stricken | 31 August 2015 |
| Identification | Pennant number: LKA-114 |
| Fate | Sunk as target, 30 August 2020 |
| Badge | .png) |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Charleston-class amphibious cargo ship |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 575 ft 6 in (175.41 m) |
| Beam | 82 ft (25 m) |
| Draft | 25 ft 5 in (7.75 m) |
| Boats & landing craft carried | 18 × LCM-8 and LCM-6 landing craft |
| Complement | 50 officers, 592 men |
| Armament | 4 × twin 3"/50 caliber guns |
| Service record | |
| Operations: | |
USS Durham (LKA-114) was a Charleston-class amphibious cargo ship in service with the United States Navy from 1969 to 1994. She was sunk as a target in August 2020.
History
[edit]USS Durham was named after Durham, North Carolina. She served as a commissioned ship for 24 years and 9 months, and earned a total of 15 awards and campaign ribbons for her service. She was laid down as AKA-114 at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, VA, and redesignated LKA-114 on 1 January 1969. She was commissioned on 24 May 1969.[1]
In April 1975, Durham participated in Operation Frequent Wind, the evacuation of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War.[2]
In the Gulf War, she was part of an 18-ship amphibious task force that was the largest such force since the Korean War. The task force arrived on station in the North Arabian Sea on 12 January 1991.
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The ship was decommissioned on 25 February 1994. She was sunk by HMAS Stuart and her embarked MH-60R Seahawk on 30 August 2020 as part of a live fire exercise during Exercise RIMPAC 2020.[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]There is no Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS) entry for the ship.
- ^ "Amphibious Cargo Ship LKA-114 Durham". www.navsource.org. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
- ^ "By Sea, Air and Land: An Illustrated History of the U.S. Navy and the war in Southeast Asia Chapter 5: The Final Curtain, 1973-1975". Archived from the original on 27 June 2007. Retrieved 6 February 2010.
- ^ RIMPAC 2020 Public Affairs (31 August 2020). "RIMPAC 2020 Participants Conduct Sinking Exercise". navy.mil. United States Navy. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
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