USS Portland (LSD-37)
{{Short description|US Navy Anchorage-class dock landing ship}}
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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.Friedman, pp. 619–620 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.
File:US Navy 030126-N-5027S-006 USS Portland (LSD-37).jpg
Citations
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Bibliography
- {{cite book|last=Friedman|first=Norman|editor1-last=Chumbley|editor1-first=Stephen |title=Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995 |year=1995|publisher=Naval Institute Press |location= Annapolis, Maryland | isbn=1-55750-132-7|chapter=United Kingdom |pages=544–634|author-link=Norman Friedman}}
External links
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- {{Naval Vessel Register URL|id=LSD37|title=Naval Vessel Register}}
- [http://unitpages.military.com/unitpages/unit.do?id=200061 USS Portland (LSD-37) page at Military.com]
- [http://navysite.de/ships/lsd37.htm USS Portland (LSD-37) page at Navsite]
- [http://www.navsource.org/archives/10/12/1237.htm USS Portland (LSD-37) page at Navsource Online]
- [https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/p/portland-ii.html Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]
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Category:Anchorage-class dock landing ships
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Category:Vietnam War amphibious warfare vessels of the United States
Category:Gulf War ships of the United States