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Teulado, Sardinia, on 13 and 14 May and then carried the actual assault exercise at Doganbey Bay, Turkey, on 25 May. The ship arrived back in Toulon on 28 May, disembarked the Allied troops, and sailed for Rota, arriving there on 31 May. Units of MARG 1-79 conducted its turnover with units of MARG 2-79 and sailed for home on 6 June. The ship stopped at Morehead City, on 18 June to disembark the marines and unload the 14 LVTs before continuing on to Little Creek that same day. She arrived back in Little Creek on 19 June. The ship remained in its home port until 26 July at which time she sailed north to New Haven, Connecticut, where she carried out training for the Naval Reserve unit based there. On 1 August,

44: 958:. From there, MARG 1-79 embarked on a 12-day Atlantic crossing, arriving at Rota, Spain, on 23 January. After relieving her counterpart in LARG 3-78, the tank landing ship left Rota on 26 January as a unit of the 6th Fleet. She called at Almeria, Spain, between 27 January and 1 February and then headed for the vicinity of Carboneras, Spain, where she conducted amphibious drills with MARG 1-79 units. Following an availability carried out from 10 to 23 February at Barcelona, Spain, the ship joined units of the 6th Fleet and of the Italian Navy in a "National Week" exercise. 1080:, during the third week in April. The task force concluded its visit on 20 April and headed for Onslow Beach, North Carolina, where it trained from 22 to 24 April, and then proceeded to Camp Pendleton, Virginia, for an early morning assault rehearsal on 25 April. She spent the last weekend in April at Little Creek and returned to Onslow Beach to complete the final week of pre-deployment training. She returned to Little Creek on 2 May for a month of final preparations for overseas movement. The tank landing ship began her Mediterranean deployment on 4 June. She stopped at 1117:

September and 1 October. Two days of operations at Caronari, Sardinia, followed on 4 and 5 October, after which the ship proceeded to Capo Teulado, Sardinia, where she took part in Exercise "Display Determination 80" between 7 and 9 October. The ship tied up in Barcelona, Spain, the next day but made an emergency departure early on 12 October to aid in earthquake relief in Algeria. En route, however, she received notification that her assistance was unnecessary and orders to alter course for Málaga, Spain, where her crew enjoyed two days of liberty on 15 and 16 October.

1217: 655:, and back to Little Creek while serving as a training platform for NROTC midshipmen. The ship remained in port during July, but, in the first part August, she took up midshipman training once more with a voyage back to Halifax, this time by way of New York City. Refresher training occupied her during the rest of August and the first week in September and then she underwent two successive availabilities in preparation for overseas assignment at the beginning of 1976. That maintenance work ended late in October, and 1843: 1714: 1648: 1594: 921:, to disembark her passengers. From that point, the mission of the cruise changed. The emphasis shifted from military preparedness to cultural exchange. The ports visited included Kiel, Germany; Edinburgh, Scotland; Copenhagen, Denmark; and Brest, France. She returned to Little Creek on 30 October and, except for a short underway off the North Carolina coast between 27 November and 7 December, spent the rest of the year there in an upkeep status. 1759: 59: 1792: 179: 867:

underwent various inspections and carried out exercises in port. She returned to sea in May to participate in the joint Exercise "Solid Shield 77." After some "wet net" training with the Army in the first week of May, preparations were begun to load causeways and embark marines. On 12 May, the ship headed south for Morehead City, arriving the following day. During the unloading that followed the landing,

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The following day, the constituent elements of LARG 3-76 rendezvoused and headed south to Vieques Island near Puerto Rico. The LARG rehearsed the landing on 22 January and then carried out the actual exercise on the following day. After reloading the 34th MAU, the LARG departed Vieques on 26 January for port visits in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

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conducted gunnery exercises near Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico on 2 November before heading through the Old Bahama Channel and then north along the east coast. She moored at Morehead City on 8 November, disembarked troops, and resumed her passage home. The ship moored at Little Creek on 9 November and

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then set out across the Atlantic. After an expeditious passage, she entered the Mediterranean and made for Capo Teulado, Sardinia, where she arrived on 27 September. At Capo Teulado, all participants of Exercise "Display Determination 79" rendezvous and conducted rehearsal landings. On 1 October, she

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departed Toulon on 2 May bound for Palma, Spain, which port she visited from 3 to 7 May. Returning to Toulon, she embarked elements of the Norwegian and Dutch Armies and put to sea again on 9 May to participate in the multinational Exercise "Dawn Patrol." The ship conducted rehearsal landings at Capo

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The standdown extended well into January 1974. She did not get underway again until the third week in the month when she reembarked upon local training assignments. Even that return to activity, however, proved to be of short duration for she returned to port on 25 January and stayed there for almost

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through which it passed on 17 July. After navigating the Gulf of Suez, the Red Sea, and the Gulf of Aden, she proceeded down the east coast of Africa to Mombasa, Kenya where she made a three-day port call at the end of the month. She left Mombasa with the task group on 31 July and headed back toward

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Between 30 July and 12 August, she served as the launching platform for five BQM-34 target drones used to test missile systems in COMTUEX 4-78. On 21 August, the tank landing ship sailed for Morehead City, where she embarked marines and loaded vehicles for Exercise "Northern Wedding" a multinational

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stood back down Chesapeake Bay bound for Horne Brothers Shipyard in Newport News, Virginia, conducting sea trials as she went. The ship began the second phase at the Horne Brothers yard on 9 December with an anticipated completion date of 2 May 1978. She commenced sea trials late in May and returned

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helped refine some new techniques for discharging fuel from LSTs. The first operations involved refueling minesweepers while at anchor. A rig was streamed aft and four MSOs were refueled in succession. The following day fuel was pumped ashore via a buoyed pipeline. All the bulk fuel the ship carried

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and her colleagues conducted amphibious exercises at Plan de Spille, Italy, from 8 to 14 September. The task group then stopped at Toulon, France, where the ship underwent a restricted availability between 17 and 29 September. From there, she proceeded to Asinara Bay for amphibious exercises on 30

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set out for Barcelona. She reached her destination on 22 October and pursued five days of liberty, returning to sea on 27 October for the voyage back to Rota and turnover formalities. The stop at Rota lasted from 29 October to 1 November, at which time she headed back across the Atlantic. The ship

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embarked Marine Corps reservists later in the week for a training exercise at Onslow Beach on the North Carolina coast. The exercise began on 11 July and continued through 19 July. She carried out two more reserve training landings at Little Creek's Anzio Beach during the last week of July and the

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sailed from Little Creek as part of Atlantic Amphibious Ready Group (LARG) 3-76. She and the other ships of PhibRon 8 loaded elements of the 34th Marine Amphibious Unit (34th MAU) on 14 January in Morehead City, North Carolina. On 16 January, the unit conducted a rehearsal landing at Onslow Beach.

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On 20 August, the ship returned to sea to participate in Operation "Teamwork '76." That exercise comprised a North Atlantic cruise during which she transported equipment for a Marine Corps air wing. After a delayed transit and a fuel stop in Scotland, the ship finally reached the first stop on its

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on 1 March. There she began her post-shakedown overhaul, an evolution that occupied her for all of March and the first two weeks of April. The ship returned to Little Creek on 13 April and commenced amphibious warfare training operations in nearby waters. These operations, largely preparations for

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got underway to return to the United States on 29 October. She stopped at Morehead City on 9 November to disembark the marines and unload their equipment and then headed north to Little Creek where she arrived on 11 November. Between 29 November and 3 December, the ship got underway for one final

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embarked on her only deployment of 1975. After embarking marines at Morehead City, she set course for Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico, where she arrived on 1 February. For two weeks, the ship engaged in a variety of drills and exercises before an damage to a bearing in her port shaft forced her into

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during the Naval Academy's June Week. She returned to Little Creek on 8 June and resumed local duty until the end of the month. On 30 June, the ship headed up Chesapeake Bay once again, this time ascending the Potomac River to Washington, D. C. That weekend the ship moored at the Washington Navy

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Her extended period of inactivity finally came to an end in January 1975 when she began preparations for a deployment with the Caribbean amphibious ready group. She was underway from 7 to 10 January to load ammunition and to conduct independent ship's exercises and again from 14 to 16 January to

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Re-transiting the canal on 9 August, her unit set course for Kalamata, Greece and a three-day liberty call from 11 to 14 August. From 16 to 19 August, she visited Alexandria, Egypt and then got underway for Naples, Italy where she spent almost two weeks in upkeep. Leaving Naples on 6 September,

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on St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands. On 8 October, the ship left San Juan to return home. She dropped the marines off at Morehead City on 11 October and reentered port at Little Creek on 12 October. She stayed at Little Creek for the rest of October but got underway for the Caribbean again on 1

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completed her final contract trials early in November and then settled into a training routine that lasted until the first week in December. At that time, she began an extended stay at Little Creek that carried her into the new year. After loading ammunition on 11 January 1973, she proceeded to

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became more limited for the next several months. During March, the ship participated in local operations consisting primarily of training with marine reservists on Anzio Beach at Little Creek. In April, crew members took advantage of an opportunity to fill gaps in their training while the ship

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anchored with the squadron at Sicily for a few days. In the course of the training anchorage visit there, a violent storm broke with winds exceeding 50 knots (93 km/h; 58 mph). Upon departing Augusta Bay after the storm subsided the ship headed for its first liberty port, Reggio di

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took over support duties largely consisting of communications and logistics responsibilities. On 22 June 1974, the tank landing ship made the six-hour transit of the canal south to her duty station at Ismailia. There, she rode at anchor in Lake Timsah for just over 15 weeks. On 8 October,

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to duty with PhibRon 8 on 2 June 1978. On 18 June, the ship arrived at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and commenced three weeks of refresher training. Immediately upon return from the West Indies, the ship launched into three weeks of amphibious refresher training at Little Creek, Virginia

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left San Juan on 30 January and headed back to Vieques for another landing exercise, a major multilateral operation involving British, Brazilian, and Dutch forces in addition to those of the Navy and Marine Corps. At the conclusion of their participation, the Dutch

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drydock at San Juan for repairs on 17 February. She completed those repairs by the end of February, and, after refueling on 1 March and reembarking the marines at Vieques on 2 March, laid in a course home. The marines disembarked at Morehead City on 6 March, and

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finally got underway for Rota, Spain, on 10 January. The Atlantic crossing proved difficult and took longer than anticipated because engineering problems plagued several ships of the squadron. Upon arrival in Rota turnover formalities proceeded quickly, and

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resumed local training operations out of Little Creek in November. Early in December, a board of inspection and survey visited the ship, and she carried out her last underway period of the year on 8–9 December in conjunction with that inspection.

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Following her return from the West Indies, the tank landing ship remained in port until the middle of April. At that time, she got underway to participate in some amphibious exercises conducted nearby during the third week in April.

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then spent a fortnight in Naples from 10 to 24 March before setting a course for the Greek coast to conduct amphibious operations off Vatica. She completed that mission on 31 March and returned to Naples for availability alongside

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She spent the rest of 1979 and the first two weeks of 1980 in port engaged in post-deployment leave and upkeep. The ship resumed normal operations on 14 January when she put to sea to participate in READEX 1-80. En route to

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sailed from Little Creek with Amphibious Group (PhibGru) 2 in Task Group (TG) 21.1. On 12 September, the ship first stopped at Morehead City to embark elements of HQRLT-8 and then at Onslow Beach to load LVTs. From there,

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evacuated several hundred civilians, the squadron moved back near the coast of Crete, where its relief soon arrived. The turnover process, during which the new squadron assumed stand-by duties, lasted two days; and then

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set a course for the Tunisian coast of North Africa, where she took part in training operations in cooperation with the Tunisian Army and Navy during the second week in July. From there, her task group steamed for the

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On 4 September 1973, she departed Little Creek to deploy to the West Indies. She picked up marines at Morehead City on 5 September and resumed her voyage to Guantanamo Bay. Arriving there early on 9 September,

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opened her deployment with a landing exercise. For the next month, she participated in a series of amphibious warfare exercises at Vieques Island and made port calls at such places as Roosevelt Roads and

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her fall deployment to the West Indies as a unit of Caribbean Amphibious Ready Group (CARG) 2-73, took place all through the summer at either locations near Little Creek or at Onslow Beach on the

823:, Germany, arriving a week later and staying until 21 October. On 22 October, the ship moored at Esberg once more to load the marine gear. The ship made her final port visit of the cruise—at 704:. Plans for a landing exercise on Spain's Atlantic coast had to be canceled as a result of civil war in Lebanon, and the squadron passed through the Strait of Gibraltar instead on its way to 1412: 900:

On 19 September, the ship left Little Creek for a delayed and much needed overhaul which was to be completed in two phases and at two different yards. The first phase, carried out at the

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In late 1988, the ship transited the Panama Canal, and cruised off the coast of Central America for several weeks. She also made a port visit to Cartagena, Colombia in this time period.

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Leaving Málaga on 17 October, she moored in Rota the next day, completed turnover procedures with MARG 3-80, and set out to return home on 22 October. Traveling once again by way of the

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on 14 February. There, she spent the next 12 days preparing to be visited by a board of inspection and survey. She got underway briefly on 28 and 29 February to load ammunition. Back at

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participated in a series of amphibious exercises carried out at nearby Vieques Island and Roosevelt Roads. When not engaged in the landing drills, she made port calls at such places as

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On 26 March, urgent orders interrupted her employment schedule once again and sent her to a holding area just east of Crete in response to an intensification of the situation in

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on 1 March, she completed her preparations for the inspection only to have it canceled by record snow storms. The ship remained busy, however, getting ready to deploy overseas.

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sent her marines ashore in the first wave and then took little further part in the evolution. At the mission's conclusion, she reembarked the marines on 18 March and headed for

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in the Bahamas before picking up the drones at Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico. After the exercise, she spent several days in St. Thomas, and then steamed back to Little Creek.

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to conduct a simulated night raid and gun shoot along the way. The task group took a break from the work of readying itself for its mission as MARG 2-80 when it visited

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the following day. That afternoon, she began the long voyage back to Little Creek. Engineering problems with her main engines caused by bad fuel forced her to stop at

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set out for European waters with the other ships of PhibRon 8. She took on marines at Morehead City on 10 May and then headed out across the Atlantic She arrived in

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sailed in company with 11 other ships to Saros Bay, Turkey, arriving there on 8 October. For a period of 10 days, this multinational force conducted rehearsals and

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15 weeks. In mid-April, orders to prepare for an unscheduled Mediterranean deployment sent her crew to the administrative equivalent of general quarters. On 9 May,

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reentered Little Creek on 1 November. She spent the remainder of 1974 in port, engaged in post-deployment standdown at first and then in holiday standdown later.

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coast. In addition, they were coordinated with the training requirements for other military organizations as well. Thus, during her July missions, she introduced

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completing preparation for a five-month Mediterranean deployment. On 10 January 1979, she departed Little Creek in company with her PhibRon 2 squadron mates—

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exercise that stressed cooperation between NATO members and in which over 100 ships from 10 countries took part. The exercise commenced on 23 August with

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to proceed to Naples for a scheduled port call. The visit lasted from 1 to 4 June, and, then the squadron left for an amphibious exercise conducted at

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The tank landing ship left Norfolk on 5 January 1976 and steamed to Morehead City, North Carolina, in company with the four other units of PhibRon 8;

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took a somewhat circuitous route home, steaming by way of the Virgin Islands and, from there, around Puerto Rico through the Windward Passage up the

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on 17 June 1980, completed turnover procedures with MARG 1-80, and departed Rota on 21 June. She entered the Mediterranean Sea and proceeded to

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Calabria, on the Italian mainland. The ship arrived on 1 February and stayed until 6 February. Departing Reggio on a Friday the ship arrived at

1926: 720:, Italy, the following day for a seven-day training anchorage visit. The ship then proceeded to Villefranche, France, arriving on 16 February. 501:(NROTC) midshipmen to amphibious warfare as a part of their summer cruise practical training. In August, she provided a similar opportunity to 498: 1238: 751:. For the first few weeks she steamed squares in the ocean while rehearsing contingency plans for a possible evacuation of Americans from 1044: 1040: 889:

first week in August. On 10 August, she headed for the West Indies once more to serve as a launch platform for target drone missiles.

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for four days from 15 to 19 January to allow reservists to train in LVT operations. Underway again on 20 January, she proceeded to

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Yard, where she hosted a throng of visitors ship during the Independence Day holiday. After returning to Little Creek on 5 July,

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amphibious exercise period. For the rest of the month, she prepared for the Caribbean exercise scheduled for early January 1977.

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embarked elements of Battalion Landing Team (BLT) 3/8. The ship sailed from Morehead City to Onslow Beach, where she loaded 14

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spent the night of 24 January in port after loading four drones and proceeded the next day to the Mobil Sea Range, near the

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disembarked the marines at Morehead City on 18 November and then sailed for Little Creek, where she arrived the next day.

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returned to Oslo to reembark the marines and carry them to their next operation. On 1 October, the ship entered

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to participate in NATO Exercise "Sardinia '76." After conducting a simulated opposed passage to Sardinia,

763:, Spain. At its end, the squadron returned to the eastern Mediterranean and resumed station off Lebanon. 1739: 1661: 1599: 1519: 1484: 1463: 1456: 1449: 1359: 1077: 803:. The marines disembarked there for a two weeks of training, and the ship departed for liberty calls at 771: 515: 424:

in July. On 24 July, she set sail from San Diego bound for her permanently assigned base of operations--

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skirting the eastern fringe of the Florida Strait and then along the east coast to Morehead City.

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for marine vehicles was pumped to a reservoir on shore. The operation proved entirely successful.

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on 7 August and arrived at Little Creek on 14 August. On 6 September, the ship got underway for

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on 20 May and received word there of her assignment to the multinational effort to clear the

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had supported the mine-clearing phase of the task, which had been conducted by helicopters.

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of the sunken ships that had barred its passage since 1967. After amphibious exercises at

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in Baltimore, Maryland, began late in September and lasted until 7 December. After that,

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Between 27 May and 24 July 1972, the tank landing ship completed fitting out, first at

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At the beginning of June, the ship proceeded to its next assignment—as visit ship at

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between 17 and 20 November, set a course for Puerto Rico. Over the next three weeks,

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before returning to Little Creek on 24 January. She carried out training landings at

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She spent the next four weeks getting ready for overseas movement. On 11 September,

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visited Washington, D.C., in May; and, early in June, she made two short cruises to

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was decommissioned on 29 June 1994 and transferred to the Spanish Navy through the

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made the canal passage north to Port Said where she was relieved of her duties by

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serving with the attached ARG. After 21 days of steaming, the ship arrived in

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picked up her marine contingent at Morehead City on 2 November and arrived at

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finally reached the Suez Canal on 8 June, though she did not actually enter

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the next day to embark marines, and then stood out across the Atlantic.

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closed to within 25 miles (40 km) of the shore and dispatched an

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The entry can be found 1144:finally visited its namesake 1054:got underway in company with 787:shaped a westerly course for 428:, Virginia She transited the 1298:"Fin de travesía en Arinaga" 862:Scheduled underway time for 445:, North Carolina, to embark 1165:Security Assistance Program 924:The new year of 1979 found 689:34th Marine Amphibious Unit 486:Philadelphia Naval Shipyard 395:on 2 October 1971. She was 2021: 1858:Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah 1177:Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 503:United States Marine Corps 277:522 ft (159.1 m) 29: 1944: 1921: 1579: 1431: 1425:-class tank landing ships 997:training. On 18 October, 333:14 officers, 210 enlisted 309:20 knots (37.0 km/h) 285:70 ft (21.34 m) 244: 50: 41: 1980:Ships built in San Diego 1148:. 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