USS Fort Snelling (LSD-30)

History
United States
Name	USS Fort Snelling
Namesake	Fort Snelling in Minnesota
Awarded	28 February 1952
Builder	Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi
Laid down	17 August 1953
Launched	16 July 1954
Commissioned	24 January 1955
Decommissioned	28 September 1984
Stricken	24 February 1992
Fate	Sold for scrap, 25 August 1995
General characteristics
Class and type	Thomaston-class dock landing ship
Displacement	8,899 long tons (9,042 t) light 11,525 long tons (11,710 t) full load
Length	510 ft (160 m)
Beam	84 ft (26 m)
Draft	19 ft (5.8 m)
Propulsion	2 × steam turbines, 2 shafts, 23,000 shp (17 MW)
Speed	21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph)
Boats & landing craft carried	21 × LCM-6 landing craft in well deck
Troops	300
Complement	304
Armament	4 × twin 3 in (76 mm)/50 cal guns 6 × twin 20 mm AA guns
Aircraft carried	One helicopter
Aviation facilities	Helicopter landing area wood plank construction; no hangar

USS Fort Snelling (LSD-30) was a Thomaston-class dock landing ship of the United States Navy. She was named for Fort Snelling at the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers, for many years the northernmost military post in the land of the Sioux and Chippewa. She was the second ship assigned that name, but the construction of Fort Snelling (LSD-23) was canceled on 17 August 1945.

Fort Snelling (LSD-30) was laid down on 17 August 1953 by Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp., Pascagoula, Miss.; launched on 16 July 1954, sponsored by Mrs. Robert P. Briscoe, wife of Vice Admiral Briscoe; and commissioned on 24 January 1955.