USS Portland (LSD-37) explained
The second
USS Portland was a
US Navy Anchorage class dock landing ship built at
General Dynamics Quincy Shipbuilding Division at
Quincy, Massachusetts, and commissioned in 1970.
[1] Portland was decommissioned in 2003 and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register in 2004. It was sunk as a target during an exercise off the
Virginia coast later that year.
Bibliography
- Book: Friedman, Norman. Chumbley. Stephen . Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995 . 1995. Naval Institute Press . Annapolis, Maryland . 1-55750-132-7. United Kingdom . 544–634. Norman Friedman.
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Notes and References
- Friedman, pp. 619–620
