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USS Saipan LHA-2

            Amphibious Assault Ship USS Saipan LHA-2 moored at South Railway Jetty Portsmouth 12th April 1984. Built by Ingalls Shipbuilding of Pascagoula Mississippi and launched in 1974, Saipan was one of five LHA-2s of  the Tarawa class commissioned into the US Fleet in 1977. Of 39,967 tons full load displacement and 834ft (254m) in length, the ship embarked a wide variety of both fixed wing and rotary aircraft during its thirty years of service, these included the OV-10 Bronco, AV-8B Harrier, CH-53 and CH-46 helicopters, a dozen CH-53s can be seen ranged on the flight deck in this photo. Significantly Saipan became the test development platform at sea for the V22 Osprey tilt rotor in 1999. Saipan de-commissioned in 2007, the Tarawa class ship then being moved  two years later to Brownsville Texas for breaking up 30th Sept 2009.
   

Taken in: United Kingdom / England / Portsmouth / Portsea (show map)

Taken on: December 29, 2014

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