_port_bow_view.jpg) USS Spartanburg County (LST-1192)
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | Spartanburg Country |
| Namesake | Spartanburg County, South Carolina |
| Ordered | 15 July 1966 |
| Builder | National Steel and Shipbuilding Company, San Diego, California |
| Laid down | 7 February 1970 |
| Launched | 7 November 1970 |
| Commissioned | 1 September 1971 |
| Decommissioned | 16 December 1994 |
| Stricken | 16 December 1994 |
| Identification | Hull number: LST-1192 |
| Fate | Sold to Malaysia, 16 December 1994 |
 Malaysia | |
| Name | KD Sri Inderapura |
| Acquired | 16 December 1994 |
| Decommissioned | 21 January 2010 |
| Identification | L 1505 |
| Fate | Destroyed by fire while in harbor on 8 October 2009 |
| General characteristics as built | |
| Class and type | Newport-class tank landing ship |
| Displacement | |
| Length | |
| Beam | 69 ft 6 in (21.2 m) |
| Draft | 17 ft 6 in (5.3 m) max |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 22 knots (41 km/h; 25 mph) max |
| Range | 2,500 nmi (4,600 km; 2,900 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
| Troops | 431 max |
| Complement | 213 |
| Sensors and processing systems |
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| Armament | 2 × twin 3"/50 caliber guns |
| Aviation facilities | Helicopter deck |
USS Spartanburg County (LST-1192) was the fourteenth of twenty Newport-class tank landing ships of the United States Navy (USN) which replaced the traditional bow door-design tank landing ships (LSTs). Named after a county in South Carolina, the ship was constructed by National Steel and Shipbuilding Company of San Diego, California. The LST was launched in 1970 and was commissioned in 1971. Assigned to the United States Atlantic Fleet, Spartanburg County deployed regularly to the Caribbean and Mediterranean Seas. In 1983 and 1985, the vessel was present in Lebanese waters. In 1990, the LST was deployed to the Persian Gulf in the Gulf War, returning to the United States in 1991. Spartanburg County was decommissioned and struck from the Naval Vessel Register in 1994.
Transferred to the Royal Malaysian Navy and commissioned as KD Sri Inderapura in 1995, the LST was deployed off the coast of Somalia in anti-piracy operations in 2008. The ship suffered two major fires, the first in 2002 after which Sri Inderapura was repaired and returned to service. The second took place in 2009 after which the vessel sank. The ship was raised and decommissioned on 21 January 2010.