USS New Orleans (LPH-11)

• Laid down, 1 March 1966, at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Philadelphia, PA.
• Launched, 3 February 1968
• Commissioned USS New Orleans (LPH-11), 16 November 1968, CAPT. G. M. Even in command
• During the Vietnam War USS participated in the following campaigns:

  Vietnam War Campaigns
  Campaigns and Dates	Campaigns and Dates
  Vietnam Summer-Fall 1969 26 to 28 August 1969 9 September to 21 October 1969	Consolidation I 16 July 1971
  Vietnam Winter-Spring 1970 15 to 25 November 1969 7 to 16 and 30 December 1969 1 to 9 January 1970 2 to 12 February 1970 10 to 13 March 1970	Vietnam Ceasefire 23 August to 7 October 1972 23 October to 12 November 1972 14 to 21 December 1972 1 to 22 and 27 to 28 January 1973 22 February to 28 March 1973
  Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase VII 20 to 21 May 1971 25 June 1971

• Decommissioned, 1 October 1997
• Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia, CA.
• Struck from the Naval Register, 23 October 1998
• USS New Orleans earned five campaign stars for Vietnam War service
• Final Disposition, sunk as a target as part of Exercise RIMPAC 2010 on 10 July 10, 2010

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  Specifications:
  Displacement 11,000 tons (lt.), 18,474 t.(fl)
  Length 592'
  Beam 84', Flight Deck 105'
  Draft 27'
  Speed 22 kts.
  Complement 667
  Troop Accommodations 2,157
  Aircraft 25 helicopters
  Armament
  (as built) single four 3"/50 dual purpose gun mounts
  (modifications) two 3"/50s dual purpose gun mounts removed
  two eight cell Sea Sparrow BPDMS launchers added, later replaced by two 25mm chain guns
  two Phalanx CIWSs added
  Propulsion
  two 600 psi boilers
  one geared steam turbine
  single propeller, 22,000 shp



 
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• Source: https://www.navsource.org/archives/10/11/1111.htm