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| Name | Tripoli |
| Namesake | Battle of Derna |
| Ordered | 10 December 1962 |
| Builder | Ingalls Shipbuilding |
| Yard number | 1105[1] |
| Laid down | 15 June 1964 |
| Launched | 31 July 1965 |
| Completed | 20 July 1966 |
| Commissioned | 6 August 1966 |
| Decommissioned | 15 September 1995 |
| Stricken | 15 September 1995 |
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| Fate | Scrapped in 2018 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Iwo Jima-class amphibious assault ship |
| Displacement | 19,302 tons |
| Length | 598 feet (182 m) |
| Beam | 84 feet (26 m) |
| Draught | 30 feet (9 m) |
| Propulsion | 2 × 600 psi (4.1 MPa) boilers, one geared steam turbines, one shaft, 22,000 shaft horse power |
| Speed | 23 knots (26 mph; 43 km/h) |
| Complement | 718 (80 officer, 638 enlisted) |
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| Aircraft carried | 20 × CH-46 Sea Knight, 10 × MH-53E Sea Dragon, 3 × AH-1 Cobra |
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USS Tripoli (LPH-10), an Iwo Jima-class amphibious assault ship, was laid down on 15 June 1964 at Pascagoula, Mississippi, by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation; launched on 31 July 1965; sponsored by Jane Cates, the wife of General Clifton B. Cates, former Commandant of the Marine Corps; and commissioned on 6 August 1966 at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. Tripoli was the second US Navy ship named for the Battle of Derna in 1805. It was the decisive victory of a mercenary army led by a detachment of US Marines and US Army soldiers against the forces of Tripoli during the First Barbary War and was the first recorded land battle of the United States fought overseas.[2]
Following three months fitting out at Philadelphia, the ship put to sea on 6 November 1966, bound for the west coast. She transited the Panama Canal at mid-month and arrived at her home port, San Diego, on 22 November 1966. Final acceptance trials, shakedown training, and post-shakedown availability at Long Beach occupied the warship until she embarked Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron HMH-463, elements of Marine Observation Squadron VMO-6, and some members of the staff of the Commander, Amphibious Squadron 8 on 1 May 1967 and departed San Diego, bound for the western Pacific.
- ^ Colton, Tim. "Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula MS". Shipbuilding History. ShipbuildingHistory.com. Archived from the original on 5 April 2016. Retrieved 14 October 2016.
- ^ "Tripoli II (LPH-10)". NHHC.