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USS Nassau: 1989
Submitted by JoeV on Sat, 07/07/2012 - 8:47am.
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In the harbor in Naples, Italy during my stay there in 1989. Naples is the home of an important US Navy base as well as a NATO base. View full size.
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Submitted by JoeV on Sat, 07/07/2012 - 4:59pm.
I'm an Air Force guy, so I wouldn't know the difference!
USS Nassau details
Submitted by Larry in Rockledge on Sat, 07/07/2012 - 10:37am.
This is not a Navy Destroyer. The USS Nassau (LHA-4) is an Amphibious Assault Ship. Commentary at http://www.hullnumber.com/LHA-4 indicates the ship was deployed to the 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean from May 1989 to November 1989.
LHA-4 General Specifications
Class: Tarawa-class amphibious assault ship
Named for: Battle of Nassau
Complement: 82 Officers and 882 Enlisted
Displacement: 39300 tons
Length: 833.34 feet
Beam: 106.6 feet
Flank Speed: 24 knots
USS Nassau
Submitted by DoninVa on Sat, 07/07/2012 - 10:15am.
This is the USS Nassau (LHA-4), an assault ship commissioned in 1979 and decommissioned in 2011. In 1989 she participated in Exercise DISPLAY DETERMINATION 89, the time frame when JoeV was in Naples.
In addition to the ship's company of 964, she was capable of carrying Harriers, helicopters and 1,900 Marines.
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