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A dock landing ship (also called landing ship, dock or LSD) is an amphibious warfare ship with a well dock to transport and launch landing craft and amphibious vehicles. [1] Some ships with well decks, such as the Soviet Ivan Rogov class , also have bow doors to enable them to deliver vehicles directly onto a beach (like a tank landing ship ).
The dock landing ship was designed with the capability of moving smaller, pre-loaded amphibious warfare craft over long distances. [2] The Ashland -class ships measured 454 feet (138 m) long at the waterline and 457 ft 9 in (139.52 m) overall with a beam of 72 ft 2 in (22.00 m) and a seagoing draft of 15 ft 10 in (4.83 m) and a maximum draft of ...
USS Ashland (LSD-1) was the lead ship of her class—the first dock landing ship of the United States Navy. She was the first Navy ship to be named for Ashland, the estate of Henry Clay, in Lexington, Kentucky.
The Anchorage class of dock landing ships was built as a replacement for the remaining aging war-built LSDs of the Ashland and Casa Grande classes. Their principal intended role was to carry additional landing craft to supplement those carried by the Amphibious transport docks (LPD)s, which carried less landing craft in order to accommodate more troops and cargo.
In January 1958, the LSD (dock landing ship) was deployed with her squadron to the 6th Fleet on an extended tour which did not end until 6 October. On 22 October, Spiegel Grove was assigned to PhibRon 10, the new Fast Squadron. The years 1959 and 1960 saw the LSD participating in numerous operations along the east coast and in the Caribbean.
The Thomaston class was the third class of U.S. Navy dock landing ships. The class was designed under project SCB 75 and approved in the early 1950s. Compared to the Ashland and Casa Grande-class dock landing ships of World War II, the ships of this class were about a third larger and five knots faster. [3]
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 ...
The Casa Grande class was a class of dock landing ships used by the Royal Navy and the United States Navy during the Second World War.Nineteen ships were planned, but two, USS Fort Snelling and USS Point Defiance were cancelled before being completed.