USS Ashland (LSD-48)

1992-

Whidbey Island class

Timeline

Date	Event
Apr 4, 1988	Laid down
Nov 11, 1989	Launched
May 9, 1992	Commissioned
May 10, 1992	Homeport	Little Creek naval base
Aug 23, 2013	Homeport	Sasebo Naval Base relieved USS Tortuga as part of 7th Fleet Forward Deployed Naval Force at Sasebo.
Jan 2018	Deployment	Sasebo Naval Base Part of Expeditionary Strike Group supporting USS Wasp in her Jan-Apr 2018 Pacfic deployment Wasp Strike Group