_off_Vietnam_in_July_1966.jpg) USS Alamo (LSD-33) off Vietnam in July 1966
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Alamo |
| Namesake | the Alamo |
| Awarded | 18 March 1954 |
| Builder | Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi |
| Laid down | 11 October 1954 |
| Launched | 20 January 1956 |
| Commissioned | 24 August 1956 |
| Decommissioned | 28 September 1990 |
| Stricken | 24 January 2001 |
| Fate | Loaned to Brazil, 12 November 1990 |
 Brazil | |
| Name | Rio de Janeiro (G31) |
| Acquired | 12 November 1990 |
| Decommissioned | 15 June 2012 |
| Fate | Scrapped in Alang India 2015 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Thomaston-class dock landing ship |
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| 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) |
| Boats & landing craft carried | 21 × LCM-6 landing craft in well deck |
| Troops | 300 |
| Complement | 304 |
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| Aircraft carried | 8 helicopters |
USS Alamo (LSD-33) was a Thomaston-class dock landing ship of the United States Navy. She was named for the Alamo, site of the 1836 Battle of the Alamo.
Alamo was laid down on 11 October 1954 at Pascagoula, Mississippi, by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp.; launched on 20 January 1956; sponsored by Mrs. Daniel V. Gallery, the wife of Rear Admiral Daniel V. Gallery: and commissioned on 24 August 1956.