[6] She was christened two months later, on 14 May — the first ship christened by Huntington Ingalls Industries since Northrop Grumman spun off its shipbuilding divisions as a separate company. She pulled into San Diego two days before Christmas. The flight was to test the capsule's avionics, heat shield, and parachutes, and the Navy was tasked to locate and recover the craft. "The LPD 17-class ships have one of the most robust command and control communications systems in our Navy inventory. Asbestos put sailors and officers at risk of exposure to fibers and of developing devastating asbestos illnesses many years after active service. USS Anchorage (LPD23) Facebook Page TOP STORY The San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS Anchorage (LPD 23) and embarked 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) arrived in Singapore for a scheduled port visit, Jan. 26. She was decommissioned on 1 October 2003. On 23 April, she shaped a course for San Diego. On 20 February, she got underway for Bremerton, Washington, to carry Army troops to their home base. Lex Patten, left, carries a bull moose shoulder mount with a rack measuring 64.5 inches with the help of Cory Purcell, that he donated to the USS Anchorage on Monday, May 6, 2013 in Anchorage, Alaska. [1], Anchorage arrived in her home port on 11 May and, on 28 June, resumed operations as a training ship for landing exercises off Seal Beach, California. After nearly 6 hours of being pounded by anti-ship cruise missiles and air dropped bombs, Anchorage would not sink and the Bremerton, was called in to finish the job. If you were of age to remember the events, we are sure you remember exactly where you were and what you were doing during that time. She made a stop at Penang, Malaysia, along the way and reentered Subic Bay on 24 March. Near the end of July, she began sea trials out of San Diego that lasted into the fourth week in August. [1], In April 1975, Anchorage participated in Operation Frequent Wind, the evacuation of Saigon, Vietnam. Sept. 11, 2001 is a day that will forever live in infamy. On 23 August the dock landing ship made the brief passage from San Diego to her new home port, Long Beach. On the 31st, she arrived at Okinawa to take Battalion Landing Team 2/9 on board for transportation to Subic Bay. COLOMBO, August 24: Amphibious transport dock USS Anchorage (LPD 23), with the embarked 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) arrived in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka, for a scheduled port visit Aug. 24.During the visit, Sailors and Marines will have opportunities to explore the local area and meet with their counterparts during exercises with the Sri Lankan Navy and Marines. On 17 July 2010, Anchorage was used as a target during RIMPAC for Maverick and Harpoon missiles fired from US Patrol Squadrons VP-5 and VP-40. On Monday, NASA, along with a team from Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Navy, boarded the USS Anchorage at San Diego Naval Base to take a practice run … Anchorage was ordered to proceed south to provide support as needed for the rescue of Mayaguez. Normal duties continued until late September when she returned to San Diego for a two-month availability. She returned to San Diego on 1 February and began overhaul there on the 19th. In some cases, Anchorage herself participated in the exercises; in others, she simply provided transportation to the location of the exercise. Her final group of passengers came on board at Yokohama, Japan, between 9 and 11 August and disembarked at Buckner Bay, Okinawa, on the 14th.[1]. Anchorage was awarded to Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi on 29 June 1965 and her keel was laid down on 13 March 1967. The ship stopped at Diego Garcia from 12 to 15 March and then resumed her voyage back to the Philippines. [1], Tests and inspections occupied Anchorage during the first two and one-half months of 1977 before another WestPac deployment began on 28 March. Sports. Leaving Subic Bay on 28 March 1974, she made stops at Guam and Pearl Harbor before arriving back in San Diego on 18 April and entering a standdown period which lasted through 29 July. The ship was formally delivered and accepted by the U.S. Navy on 17 September 2012. On 8 December, the vessel commenced another WestPac deployment. The ship then paid a short visit to Yokosuka, Japan, for liberty and the loading of equipment for transportation to the United States. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Orion launched atop a Delta IV rocket from Space Launch Complex 37B at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, made two orbits of the planet during a four and a half hour mission, and splashed down in the Pacific. [1], From 24 September through 8 October, Anchorage traveled among Subic Bay and Vung Tau, Camranh Bay and Danang, Vietnam, carrying various small craft. She stopped at Pearl Harbor and then sailed to Johnston Atoll to deliver several landing craft. Except for a brief period underway inside the port on 17 April, Anchorage remained moored at San Diego for almost five months performing repairs and modifications. [6], NASA marked a major milestone in the agency's program to reestablish America's manned space program when it carried out EFT-1 with Orion on 5 December 2014. ... so she went down training sailors so it was a noble death The anchorage on the Southwest coast of Morotai was the staging area from which U.S. and Australian naval craft transported troops, equipment and supplies of the 7th and 9th Australian Divisions of the 1st Australian Corps in the subsequent attacks on the island of Borneo. This study was followed by refresher training and a period inport at San Diego. Nearly 22 minutes later, Anchorage slipped beneath the waves completing the final stage of the RIMPAC 2010 SINKEX. Anchorage stood out of Subic Bay on 15 February to begin her goodwill mission. She stopped at Naha, Okinawa, from 10 to 12 June and then returned to sea for the voyage back to the United States. The two photos below were taken by me and show the ANCHORAGE laid-up at Pearl Harbor, Hi., on March 20, 2010. From: "Signalmen raise signal flags on the mast of the dock landing ship USS ANCHORAGE (LSD 36)", to "Aboard the US Navy (USN) Anchorage Class, USS ANCHORAGE (LSD36), US Marine Corps (USMC) members from L Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, wait with anticipation to go ashore … From the 20th to the 23d, Anchorage was at Okinawa to disembark Marines and to unload their equipment. On the 8th, Anchorage set out upon the first leg of the voyage back to the United States. [1], Those drills and exercises - punctuated by periods in port for upkeep and repairs - occupied her time during the remaining months of 1984 and for most of the first quarter of 1985. She then proceeded to Yokosuka for upkeep. Destined for Tasmania, the Belleau Wood limped into Sydney Harbor for repairs to the boilers while the Anchorage replaced her in Tasmania. Anchorage returned to San Diego on 9 January 1970. On 27 March 1985, she left Long Beach bound for the Orient. Enlarge Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-60) View in National Archives Catalog Please Note: On August 22, 2019, the VA began scanning more than 20 million images from the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard deck logs so that they can be made available online. Anchorage arrived at Subic Bay on 18 August for upkeep. On that day, the ship sailed northward to carry out a survey mission of potential amphibious training areas in Alaska. During this time, PhibRon 5 was relieved of duties as ARG Alfa. In 2000 she assisted the USS Cole after that ship was bombed in the waters off Yemen. USS ANCHORAGE Image Gallery: The photo below was taken by me on July 29, 2006, and shows the ANCHORAGE berthed at the Naval Inactive Ships Maintenance Facility in Pearl Harbor, HI. Unseasonably snowy conditions could not deter thousands of Alaskans from flocking to the Port of Anchorage May 4 to witness the commissioning of the Navy's newest vessel, the USS Anchorage.In an elaborate ceremony that officially inducted the amphibious, In May, she paid a courtesy visit to her namesake city, Anchorage, Alaska. Orion arrives on USS Anchorage. She returned to San Diego on the 7th and entered a holiday leave and upkeep status. [1], The ship sailed for Hawaii on 1 October and, en route, participated in Convoy Exercise 3-71. While off Korea, Anchorage joined ARG Bravo for Operation Fly Away. With her return to active operations on 10 October, Anchorage embarked upon an extended period of local operations that occupied her not only during the remainder of 1985 but for the whole of 1986 as well. Anchorage was approved for transfer to Taiwan by the United States Senate in November 2003. “That Anchorage was an LSD, a dock landing ship, so very similar missions. Her next port of call was Hong Kong, which she visited from 10 until 18 September and then returned to the Subic Bay operating area. USS Anchorage Top Officers Fired After 'Engineering Incident' | … Late in October, she carried out relief operations in the Lagonoy Gulf on the eastern coast of the Philippines for victims of Typhoons Joan and Kate. [4] Also while there assisted in Operation Quick Draw and Operation Distant Runner with the Hotel Rwanda incident and Burundi. From 26 April through 17 June, she was in restricted availability in preparation for a visit to Alaska. [1], Outfitted with a large floodable stern section accessed through an enormous operable stern gate, Anchorage served as a launch platform for large landing craft, such as the LCU, as well as a "boat haven" to shelter other small craft utilized in an amphibious landing. Anchorage is participating in the first Exploration Flight Test (EFT-1) for the NASA Orion program. She stopped at Pearl Harbor at the beginning of July and remained in the Hawaiian Islands for the first three weeks of the month completing an oft-delayed propulsion plant certification. She disembarked her last Marine Corps passengers at Yokosuka at the end of January 1984 and remained there until the beginning of the second week in February. Anchorage's keel was laid down on 24 September 2007, at the Avondale Shipyard near New Orleans, Louisiana, then owned by Northrop Grumman Ship Systems. Anchorage, is part of the Essex Amphibious Ready Group (ARG), and is deployed to the 7th fleet area of operations to support regional stability, reassure partners and allies and maintain a presence postured to respond to any crisis from … "[6], The space agency's planners intended Orion to reach an altitude of nearly 3,600 mi (5,800 km) above the Earth's surface during EFT-1. From Djibouti, she headed for Diego Garcia Island to deliver barges to that isolated American outpost in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Throughout, her assignment with the 7th Fleet, Anchorage spent much of her time carrying Marines between their bases and training exercises. She spent the rest of October at Yokosuka, then got underway for Okinawa on 1 November to begin conveying Marine Corps units between their bases and the sites of training exercises. Her next port call was at Buckner Bay, Okinawa, where Marines came on board for transportation to Subic Bay, Philippines. On occasion, she joined in the exercises herself to practice her role as an amphibious warship. In January 1987, Anchorage got underway for her Westpac deployment. The ship and its crew will conduct an Underway Recovery Test, or URT, in conjunction with NASA out in open ocean waters. Early September brought her a liberty call at Hong Kong. From Okinawa, the dock landing ship sailed via Subic Bay and Singapore to Thailand where she joined elements of the Royal Thai Navy and the Royal Thai Marine Corps in amphibious training exercises. She reached Delmar, California, on 12 March and debarked her passengers. After debarking Marines at Camp Pendleton, Anchorage returned to San Diego on 13 October. Unfortunately, the USS Belleau Wood (LHA 3) received extensive damage from the storm which led to an extended stay in the naval shipyards at Subic Bay. [1], During the cruise, the ship visited Subic Bay; Buckner Bay; Sasebo and Iwakuni, Japan; Diego Garcia; and Singapore. She operated along the southern California coast and held refresher training and amphibious refresher training. In October 2017, a Marine Corps HIMARS fired a rocket while at sea against a land target for the first time from the deck of the amphibious transport dock USS Anchorage, demonstrating the system's ability to operate while on ships to deliver precision fire from a standoff range from shore defenses. On Monday, NASA, along with a team from Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Navy, boarded the USS Anchorage at San Diego Naval Base to take a practice run … The USS Anchorage, a U.S. Navy namesake ship named after Alaska's largest city, departed the San Diego naval base as part of a National Aeronautics and Space Administration mission Wednesday. Anchorage took about two weeks to get settled into her new base of operations and then embarked upon a series of training evolutions in the local operating area. USS Anchorage (LSD-36) was the lead ship of the Anchorage-class dock landing ship of the United States Navy. Anchorage, Military Sealift Command-manned salvage ship Salvor, Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 8 (HSC-8), EODMU-11, Mobile Diving and Salvage Company 11-17, Fleet Weather Center San Diego, and Fleet Combat Camera Pacific took part in the recovery when the spacecraft splashed down. The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, shown here as transits the South China Sea March 16, has docked in Guam to test sailors amid a coronavirus outbreak on the ship. [1], Various training evolutions occupied her time through May and into June 1981. News 1 death, 220 new COVID-19 cases reported Friday Maiden Deployment, July 10 2018-March 01 2019 western pacific, This page was last edited on 5 July 2020, at 22:55. In 1996, following completion of a deployment during which she supported Operation Southern Watch in the Persian Gulf, Anchorage entered dry dock for her final dry dock planned maintenance availability during which she received numerous systems upgrades and modifications. Orion's life support, propulsion, thermal protection, and avionics systems enable the spacecraft to extend the duration of her deep space missions, as part of the goal to eventually land on Mars. The following day, Anchorage moved to Long Beach where she began a five-week post-deployment stand-down. [6], "NASA did a trade study whether they wanted Orion to land on the ground or in the water," Andy Quiett, Detachment 3 deputy operations lead for the Orion program and Department of Defense (DoD) liaison for NASA said, "and because of the size, weight and the deep space requirements of the vehicle, they determined it needed to land in water." [1], The ship was involved in training operations along the California coast in January 1978. Along the way, she visited Pearl Harbor, Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands, and Guam in the Mariana Islands before arriving at Subic Bay in the Philippines on 6 February 1980. Anchorage conducted sea trials in the local operating area during the first half of November and then spent the remainder of the year in port. PACIFIC OCEAN (DEC. 3, 2014) An MH60-S Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 8 takes off from the amphibious transport dock ship USS Anchorage (LPD 23) as part of at-sea training. She got underway, in tow of Abnaki, for the Long Beach Naval Shipyard on 14 April, and commenced a regular overhaul there the next day. Built by Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi, USS ANCHORAGE was assigned to the Pacific Fleet Amphibious forces and began her service life with deployments to the Western Pacific and the waters of Vietnam. 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