USS Harlan County

History
United States
Name	USS Harlan County
Namesake	Harlan County
Awarded	15 July 1966
Builder	National Steel and Shipbuilding Company, San Diego, California
Laid down	7 November 1970
Launched	24 July 1971
Commissioned	8 April 1972
Decommissioned	14 April 1995
Stricken	23 July 2002
Identification	LST-1196
Motto	Swift and Sure, United We Sail
Fate	Sold to Spain, 27 April 2000
Spain
Name	Pizarro
Namesake	Francisco Pizarro
Acquired	27 April 2000
Decommissioned	14 December 2012
Identification	L42
Fate	Sold for scrap, April 2016
General characteristics
Class and type	Newport-class tank landing ship
Displacement	4,793 long tons (4,870 t) light 8,500 long tons (8,636 t) full load
Length	522 ft (159 m)
Beam	70 ft (21 m)
Draft	17 ft 4 in (5.28 m)
Installed power	3 ALCO/GE generators (750 kW, 1201 A each)
Propulsion	6 × ALCO diesel engines (3 per shaft), 16,000 shp (11,931 kW) GE 800 hp (597 kW) variable pitch bow thruster 2 hydraulically controlled variable pitch reversible props
Speed	20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)+ (27 knots (50 km/h) confirmed in 1991)
Complement	Navy: 12 officers, 211 men Marines: approximately 400 including officers and enlisted, when embarked
Armament	2 × twin 3-inch/50-caliber guns, later replaced by two single 25 mm Mark 38 guns 1 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS 8 × M2 Browning .50 caliber machine guns
Aviation facilities	Helicopter landing deck aft of stacks

USS Harlan County (LST-1196) was a United States Navy tank landing ship of the Newport class. Entering service in 1972, the ship was active until decommissioned in 1995 and transferred to Spain. Renamed Pizarro, her Spanish service ended in 2012 and in 2013 it was reported that she would be sold to Angola as part of a package with the Spanish aircraft carrier Príncipe de Asturias. This sale was not completed and, after further attempts to sell the ship were unsuccessful, she was sold for scrap in April, 2016; she was completely dismantled by November, 2016, in El Puerto de Santa Maria, Spain.