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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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USS Portland (LSD-37)

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. 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.

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Citations

  1. ^ Friedman, pp. 619–620

Bibliography

  • Friedman, Norman (1995). "United Kingdom". In Chumbley, Stephen (ed.). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. pp. 544–634. ISBN 1-55750-132-7.

34°55′48.9″N 70°14′56.3″W / 34.930250°N 70.248972°W / 34.930250; -70.248972