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USS Charleston (AKA-113)
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Invitation to the launching ceremony of USS Charleston (AKA-113) at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, VA. on 2 December 1967. |
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Mayor J. Palmer Gaillard, Jr. of Charleston, SC at the podium prior to the launching USS Charleston (AKA-113) at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, VA. on 2 December 1967. |
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The ship's sponsor, Mrs. John H. Thatch, wife of ADM. John Thatch, breaking the traditional bottle of champagne over the ships bow during the launching ceremony of USS Charleston (AKA-113) at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, VA. on 2 December 1967. |
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Launching of USS Charleston (AKA-113) at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, VA. on 2 December 1967. |
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Launching of USS Charleston (AKA-113) at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, VA. on 2 December 1967. |
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USS Charleston (AKA-113) fitting out at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, VA. 1968.
Photo courtesy Newport News Shipbuilding. |
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USS Charleston (AKA-113) under way, 18 November 1968 off Hampton Roads, VA.. The big craft on her sides are LCM(8)s; an LCVP nests in a LCM(6) carried athwartships. The big splayed kingposts are for the German Stuelken heavy-lift boom system. Note that only the bow guns have weather shields.
Photo Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company. Photo and text from "U.S. Amphibious Ships and Craft: An Illustrated Design History" by Norman Friedman. |
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USS Charleston (AKA-113) under way, 19 November 1968, 36 miles east off Hampton Roads, VA.
US Navy Photographic Center photo # K 62398 by PH2 Bayse. |
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USS Charleston (AKA-113) under way, date and location unknown. |
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USS Charleston (LKA-113)
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USS Charleston (LKA-113) moored inboard of USS El Paso (LKA-117) at Naval Station Norfolk, 5 June 1974. |
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USS Charleston (LKA-113) at anchor in the Mediterranean Sea, March 1976. |
© Richard Leonhardt |
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USS Charleston (LKA-113) at anchor in the Kithira Strait, Mediterranean Sea, 25 June 1976, with her amphibious group. Photo from the Soviet DDG Krasny Krim. |
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USS Charleston (LKA-113) under way, date and location unknown. |
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USS Charleston (LKA-113) moored pierside, January 1977, location unknown.
Photo by Henry H. Parsons |
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USS Charleston (LKA-113) under way in the Caribbean Sea, February 1977. |
© Richard Leonhardt |
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USS Charleston (LKA-113) moored pierside at Genoa, IT., 10 January 1978 |
Photo by Carlo Martinelli |
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USS Charleston (LKA-113) moored pierside at Palma de Mallorca, Spain during a routine port visit, circa 1980s. |
Photo by José Antonio Rodríguez Carreño |
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USS Charleston (LKA-113) arriving/departing, date and location unknown.
US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, July1981. |
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USS Charleston (LKA-113) moored pierside at Fort Lauderdale, FL. in September, 1984. |
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"Charlene" the USS Charleston (LKA-113) mascot, 1984. Charlene was a mutt the crew rescued from the pound's death row. She was "assigned" to the ship's Navigation Department. |
Photo by Bill Fessenden |
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"Charlene" the USS Charleston (LKA-113) mascot, 1984. |
Photo by Bill Fessenden |
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USS Charleston (LKA-113) underway off San Diego, CA., date unknown.
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Nicholas Tiberio |
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Ex-USS Newport (LST-1179)
Ex-USS Manitowoc (LST-1180)
Ex-USS Sumter (LST-1181)
Ex-USS Boulder (LST-1190) and
Ex-USS El Paso (LKA-117),
Ex-USS Charleston (LKA-113), laid up in reserve in the Norfolk Naval Ship, 8 October 1994.
U.S. DefenseImagery photo # DN-SC-95-01401 a U.S. Navy photo by Don S. Montgomery |
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USS Charleston (LKA-113) and USS Butte (AE-27) laid up at the Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility, Philadelphia, PA., September 2004 |
Photo by Jon White STG-3, USS Luce, 1985-87 |
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USS Mobile (LKA-115) (outboard), USS El Paso (LKA-117) (center) and USS Charleston (LKA-113) (inboard closest to the pier) laid up at the Philadelphia Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility (NISMF), 29 October 29, 2007. Photo by ©Marc Piché Vercheres, Quebec, Canada. |
TJ Tropea, Courtesy Marc Piché |
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Ex-USS Boulder (LST-1190)
Ex-USS Mobile (LKA-115),
Ex-USS Charleston (LKA-113) and
Ex-USS El Paso (LKA-117) laid up in reserve at the Philadelphia Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility, Philadelphia, PA., 21 October 2017.
Photo courtesy of Chuck Homler |
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From outboard to inboard; ex-USS Yorktown (CG-47), ex-USS Mobile (LKA-115),
ex-USS El Paso (LKA-117) and
ex-USS Charleston (LKA-113) moored at the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility, Philadelphia, date unknown.
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From inboard to outboard;
ex-USS El Paso (LKA-117),
ex-USS Charleston (LKA-113) and
ex-USS Mobile (LKA-115) moored at the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility, Philadelphia, 20 April 2018
| Joseph J. LaPenna Jr. |
