USS Portland (LSD-37)

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Portland stands out of the harbor at the Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek, Virginia, 2003
History
United States
Name	Portland
Namesake	Portland, Maine Portland, Oregon
Ordered	25 February 1966
Laid down	5 May 1968
Launched	20 December 1969
Commissioned	3 October 1970
Decommissioned	4 August 2003
Stricken	8 March 2004
Nickname(s)	Sweet Pea
Fate	Sunk as a target, 25 April 2004
General characteristics
Displacement	14,181 long tons (14,409 t)
Length	553 ft (169 m)
Beam	84 ft (26 m)
Draft	20 ft (6.1 m)
Propulsion	2 shafts; 2 turbines; two 600 psi (4.1 MPa) boilers
Speed	22 knots
Complement	26 officers and 396 enlisted
Armament	8 × 3 in guns, 2 CIWS 4 × .50 calibre guns

The second USS Portland was a US Navy Anchorage class dock landing ship built at General Dynamics Quincy Shipbuilding Division at Quincy, Massachusetts, and commissioned in 1970.^[1] Portland was decommissioned in 2003 and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register in 2004. It was sunk as a target during an exercise off the Virginia coast later that year.