USS New Orleans LPH-11

Iwo Jima class - LH - Assault Carrier

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Shipyard:	Philadelphia Naval Shipyard
See Also:	L San Antonio class LPD-18

Events

History of USS New Orleans LPH-11

1964-dec-18	Ordered	Ordered
1966-mar-01	Laid down	Laid down
1968-feb-03	Launched	Launched
1968-nov-16	Commissioned	Commissioned
1969-mar-03		Arrived at her homeport San Diego by way of the Panama Canal
1969-jul-22		Commander COMPHIBRON ONE transferred his pennant from USS Dubuque LPD-8
1969-jul-29	Deployment	Deployment NAS North Island assigned to Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 361 departed North Island for S Vietnam with 18 CH-53A of HMH-361.
1969-aug		Flagship for Amphibious Ready Group Bravo
1969-aug-27		Offloaded 18 CH-53As from HMM-361 to join MAG-36 at Phu Bai
1969-oct		Operation Keystone Cardinal
1969-oct		Offloaded Battalion Landing Team 2-26
1970		Marines of the 26th Regiment boarded at Da Nang for trip back home
1970-mar-12		Docked at Da Nang
1970-aug		Provided support and security for President Nixon visit to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
1971		Mike Douglas TV Show filmed onboard
1971-feb-09		Apollo 14 astronauts quarantined on Pacific Carrier. Sea kings 152123, 152121
1971-feb-09		Helicopters of HS-6 and frogmen of UDT-11 made recovery
1973-mar-28		Operation End Sweep, neutralized mines in Haiphong Harbor with Navy and Marine CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopters
1973-jul-26		Transfer 13 CH-53s from Cubi Point as substitutes for HMM-165 s CH-46s, equiped with ALE-29 flare dispensers to counter heat-seeking missles, (MAU s aviation element - 13 CH-53s, 4 CH-46s, 4 AH-IJs and 2 UH-IEs)
1973-aug-06		Departed Subic Bay reaching Gulf of Thailand in four days, MAU, 1st Battalion 4th Marines and HMM-165
1973-sep-25		Skylab 2 astronauts sleep aboard as ship arrives in San Diego
1974-jan-04		Underway for Skylab IV mission
1974-feb-08		Recovered astronauts Gibson, Pogue and Carr about an hour after splashdown, 176 miles from San Diego, California
1974-apr-06		31st MAU s LPH unit swap complete from LPH-3
1974-jun-22		Returned to Subic Bay from Okinawa where HMM-164 replaced HMH-462
1975-jul		At Pearl Harbor, lowered Apollo capsule to the dock
1975-jul-24		Apollo lands 6.2 miles from recovery ship, 330 miles west of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, craft lowered by crane onto deck
1977-sep	Port Visit	Port Visit Yokosuka Naval Base U.S. Naval Base Yokosuka, Japan
1977-sep-28		AV-8 Harrier jet landed on the deck, then rose and roared off, near the coast of Okinawa
1977-oct		3rd Battalion 4th Marines onboard, WESTPAC 77
1977-oct-11		UNREP with USS San Jose (AFS-7)
1977-nov-01	Port Visit	Port Visit Subic Bay Harbour Pierside Subic Bay, Philippines
1977-dec-07	Homeport	Homeport Naval Base San Diego Moored NAV STA San Diego Pier
1978-jun-07		WESTPAC 78 June 7-Oct.5, 4 months
1978-jul-31	Port Visit	Port Visit Hong Kong Port Port visit Hong Kong after typhoon hit
1978-oct-05		Arrived at San Diego from WESTPAC 78
1979		In the fall of 79, HS-2 participated in amphibious operations with a multi-nation task force
1979-oct	Port Visit	Port Visit Coal Harbour Kernel Potlatch II, Vancouver, Canada
1980-mar		Arabian Sea West Pac-Indian Ocean, Gulf of Oman
1980-may-23		U/W WESTPAC
1980-may-30	Deployment	Deployment Arabian Sea Operation Eagles Claw HMM-262 Flying Tigers flew aboard and joined a detachment of four AH-1T from HMA-169 to conduct operations in the Northern Arabian Gulf in response to the hostage crisis in Iran
1980-jul		Typhoon Kim means stand down, Philippines
1980-aug-19		Miss America Troop arrives by helicopter
1980-sep	Port Visit	Port Visit Port Mombasa Port Mombasa, Kenya after 33 day patrol
1980-sep-02		Shellback Initiation Ceremony
1980-sep-18	Port Visit	Port Visit Diego Garcia Port Inport Diego Garcia, for 8 hrs to refuel
1980-sep-27	Port Visit	Port Visit Fremantle Harbour Fremantle-Perth, Australia, Sept.27-Oct. 2
1980-nov-13		NS Pearl Harbor Inport Pearl Harbor, Hawaii where Tiger Cruise 80 started Nov. 15th
1980-nov-22	Homeport	Homeport Naval Base San Diego Arrive in San Diego, end of WESTPAC 80
1991		Cross-decked MH-53E helicopters and equipment from the USS Tripoli in the Persian Gulf
1993-sep		Operation Restore Hope, Mogadishu, Somalia
1993-sep-03		Underway WESTPAC 93-94
1994-nov		Portions of the movie Apollo 13 filmed onboard
1995-aug	Aircraft	Aircraft CH-46 157693 ditched on sea near Jordan
1995-aug-17		Persian Gulf Dispatched to station off Kuwait
1995-dec-22		Returned from WESTPAC with more than 4,000 sailors and marines, the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit
1997		Decommissioned after 90,000 helicopter landings and traveling 750,000 miles
1997-oct-31	Decommissioned	Decommissioned
1998-oct-23	Struck	Struck
2010-jul-10	Fate: sunk	Fate: sunk as a target during RIMPAC