USS Nashville (LPD-13)

USS Nashville patrolling the Arabian Sea in 2006
History
United States
Name	USS Nashville
Namesake	Nashville, Tennessee
Operator	United States Navy
Ordered	15 May 1964[1]
Builder	Lockheed Shipbuilding
Laid down	14 March 1966[1]
Launched	7 October 1967[1]
Acquired	26 December 1969[1]
Commissioned	14 February 1970[1]
Decommissioned	30 September 2009[2]
Stricken	13 November 2017
Fate	Scrapped in Brownsville 2022
General characteristics
Class and type	Austin-class amphibious transport dock
Displacement	Light: 9,784 t (9,629 long tons; 10,785 short tons) Full: 17,479 t (17,203 long tons; 19,267 short tons) Dead: 7,695 t (7,573 long tons; 8,482 short tons)[1]
Length	Overall: 570 ft (170 m) Waterline: 548 ft (167 m)[1]
Beam	Extreme: 105 ft (32 m) Waterline: 84 ft (26 m)[1]
Draft	Limit: 23 ft (7.0 m) Ballasted: 34 ft (10 m)[1][3]
Propulsion	Two boilers, two steam turbines, two shafts, 24,000 shp (18,000 kW) each[1]
Speed	21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph)[1]
Complement	Ship's company: 489 (59 officers, 430 enlisted); Marine detachment: 900[1]
Sensors and processing systems	SPS-40 Air Search Radar SPS-10 Surface Search Radar SPS-64 Navigational Radar Furuno Navigational Radar[3]
Armament	Two Mk 38 25 mm guns Two Phalanx CIWS, Eight .50 caliber machine guns[3]
Aircraft carried	Up to six CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters[3]

USS Nashville (LPD-13), was an Austin-class amphibious transport dock and the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for the capital city of Tennessee. Her keel was laid down on 14 March 1966 by the Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company of Seattle, Washington. She was launched on 7 October 1967 sponsored by Mrs. Roy L. Johnson, and commissioned at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington, on 14 February 1970.