Everything about Uss Fort Snelling Lsd-30 totally explained
USS Fort Snelling (LSD-30) was a
Thomaston-class dock landing ship of the
United States Navy. She was named for
Fort Snelling at the confluence of the
Minnesota and
Mississippi Rivers, for many years the northernmost military post in the land of the
Sioux and
Chippewa. She was the second ship assigned that name, but the construction of
Fort Snelling (LSD-23) was canceled on
17 August 1945.
Fort Snelling (LSD-30) was laid down on
17 August 1953 by
Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp.,
Pascagoula, Miss.;
launched on
16 July 1954, sponsored by Mrs.
Robert P. Briscoe, wife of Vice Admiral Briscoe; and
commissioned on
24 January 1955, Commander H. Marvin-Smith in command.
Homeported at
Norfolk, Va.,
Fort Snelling carried out an intensive exercise schedule along the east coast and in the
Caribbean, almost always with
Marines embarked for amphibious training. She made her first deployment to the
Mediterranean in 1956, returning the next year again to serve with the
6th Fleet. During her 1958 deployment, she was at sea bound for the island of
Rhodes when on
14 July she was notified to land her Marines at
Beirut,
Lebanon, the next day. Thus,
Fort Snelling took part in the immediate response of the U.S. Navy to the Middle Eastern crisis of summer 1958. Several times more before leaving the Mediterranean she returned to the coast of Lebanon to support the Marines ashore. Through 1959 and 1963,
Fort Snelling continued her training operations with marines in the Caribbean and on the
Carolina coast. In 1965, while returning from a Mediterranean deployment,
Fort Snelling was assigned as task group commander of the Navy's Palomaris hydrogen bomb recovery operations. Because of her large well deck,
Fort Snelling carried the deep diving submarine
Aluminaut. in 1966, she participated in the extraction of U.S. Marines from the Dominican Republican crisis.
» : [
1967-1984]
Fort Snelling was decommissioned
28 September 1984 and transferred to the
Maritime Administration (MARAD)
7 September 1989. Her name was struck from the
Naval Vessel Register 24 February 1992 and she was sold for scrapping
25 August 1995 to Peck Recycling,
Richmond, VA, for $268,707.
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