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Anchorage Class
TUSS Anchorage (LSD-36)
was a dock landing ship of the United States
Navy. She was lead ship of the Anchorage-class
as well as the first ship in the navy to be
named after the city in Alaska.Anchorage
was awarded to Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula,
Mississippi on 29 June 1965 and her keel was
laid down on 13 March 1967. She was launched
on 5 May 1968 and commissioned on 15 March
1969.In
the ship's 34 years of service, she completed
19 deployments in the western Pacific and
became the most decorated dock landing ship
on the west coast.
In 1991, she served
in Operation Desert Storm and later in 2000
she was used to assist the USS Cole (DDG-67)
following her bombing in Yemen.
In
July 2003, Anchorage returned to its homeport
at San Diego, California after supporting
Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation
Iraqi Freedom. She was decommissioned on
1 October 2003.
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