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USS Tripoli (LPH-10)

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Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (5)
Second Row - Joint Meritorious Unit Award - Navy Unit Commendation (4) - Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation
Third Row - Navy Battle "E" Ribbon (2) - National Defense Service Medal - Vietnam Service Medal (9)
Fourth Row - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (Restore Hope, Somalia) - Southwest Asia Service Medal - Humanitarian Service Medal
Fifth Row - Philippines Presidential Unit Citation - Republic of Vietnam Meritorious Unit Citation for Gallantry (8) - Vietnam Campaign Medal
Iwo Jima Class Amphibious Assault Ship (Helicopter):
  • Laid down, 15 June 1964, at Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. Pascagoula, MS.
  • Launched, 31 July 1965
  • Commissioned USS Tripoli (LPH-10), 6 August 1966, CAPT. Henry M. Suerstedt Jr. in command
  • Decommissioned, 8 September 1995, at Naval Station San Diego, CA.
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 15 September 1995
  • USS Tripoli earned nine campaign stars for Vietnam service
  • Custody transferred to the US Army, 27 June 1997
  • Laid up, 14 April 2017, in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Beaumont, TX.
  • Title transfer to the Maritime Administration (MARAD), 1 July 2015
  • Disposed of by MARAD, 31 December 2015
  • Final Disposition, departed the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Beaumont, TX., Thursday, 24 May 2018, under tow to International Ship Breaking in Brownsville, TX.
    Specifications:
    Displacement 11,000 t.(lt), 18,474 t.(fl)
    Length 592'
    Beam 84'
    Flight Deck Beam 105'
    Draft 27'
    Speed 22 kts.
    Complement 667
    Troop Accommodations 2,157
    Aircraft 25 helicopters
    Armament
     (As Built)
     four 3"/50 AA guns
     (Modifications)
     two 3"/50s removed and replaced with 8 cell Sea Sparrow BPDMS launchers
     two Phalanx CIWS added
    Propulsion
    two 600 psi boilers
    one geared steam turbine
    one shaft, 22,000 shaft horsepower
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    USS Tripoli (LPH-10)
    Tripoli
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    Namesake
    Tripoli - Commemorates a joint land-sea operation against Derna during the war between the United States and the Barbary state of Tripoli, which resulted in the capture of that fortress city on 27 April 1805 After a long and grueling march across the desert from Alexandria, William H. Eaton, the American naval agent in the Barbary states, led a polyglot force of some 300 Arabs and Bedouins, about 70 Greek mercenaries, and eight US Marines in storming the Tripolitan defensive positions. Gunfire from United States warships Hornet, Nautilus, and Argus, under Master Commandant Isaac Hull, and the valor of the Marines, commanded by Lt. Presley Neville O'Bannon, USMC, were instrumental in achieving the American victory which has been immortalized by the phrase from the Marine Corps hymn, "From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli."
    Painting - "Attack on Derna," painting by Colonel Charles Waterhouse, USMC.
    Map - North Africa, Google Maps    		 Tommy Trampp
    Tripoli 545k Starboard side view and overhead plan of USS Tripoli (LPH-10)
    Plan by A.D. Baker III. Images from "U.S. Aircraft Carriers: An Illustrated Design History" by Norman Friedman    		 Robert Hurst
    Tripoli 130k The traditional bottle of Champagne is broken across the bow of Tripoli (LPH-10) as she is Christened by her sponsor, Mrs. Jane Gates, the wife of General Clifton B. Gates, former Commandant of the Marine Corps, and launch at Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. Pascagoula, MS., 31 July 1965 Dale Hargrave
    Tripoli 131k Tripoli (LPH-10) slides down the builders ways after she has been Christened by her sponsor, Mrs. Jane Gates, the wife of General Clifton B. Gates, former Commandant of the Marine Corps, at Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. Pascagoula, MS., 31 July 1965 Dale Hargrave
    Tripoli 133k USS Tripoli (LPH-10) underway in 1966, location unknown.
    US Navy photos.    		 Robert Hurst
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    Tripoli
    101110134    		 42k USS Tripoli (LPH-10) underway early in her career, date and location unknown NIcholas Tiberio
    Tripoli
    101110127    		 269k GMG3 James G. Craycroft polishes the Mark 33 3in/50cal twin mount aboard USS Tripoli at Naval Base Subic Bay, Philippine, circa 1967.
    US Navy Photo by PH1 Dave Maclean, now in the collections of the US National Archives.    		 Yu Chu
    Tripoli 37k A Bell UH-1E takes off from USS Tripoli (LPH-10) off the coast of Vietnam in 1967.
    US Navy photo.    		 Yu Chu
    Tripoli 53k US Navy Sea Knight helicopters lands aboard USS Tripoli (LPH-10) after re-supplying Marines in the field and performing medevac missions, circa 1967.
    Photo credit vetfriends.com    		 Yu Chu
    Tripoli
    10111047    		 109k A U.S. Marine Corps Sikorsky CH-53A Sea Stallion helicopter of Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 463 (HMH-463) lifts a disabled Sikorsky UH-34D Seahorse of Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 263 (HMM263) off the deck of USS Tripoli (LPH-10), 15 June 1967.
    Photo by Cpl. Cowen, U.S. Marine Corps now in the collections of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration    		 Robert Hurst
    Tripoli 254k Medical personnel and other crewmembers run to unload wounded Marines from a UH-1 helicopter that landed on USS Tripoli (LPH-10) in July 1967. In addition to hospital ships, casualties could be taken to large naval ships which had medical facilities. The helicopter in Vietnam played a vital role in evacuating wounded to medical treatment.
    US Navy photo # K-39858    		 Chin Yu Chu
    Tripoli
    10111045    		 215k Navy Chaplain James Wilson encourages Marine Lance Cpl. J.A. Holland, wounded in both legs, aboard USS Tripoli (LPH-10) in July 1967. Notice the cross around Holland's neck. A medical officer examines the Marine's legs while either a chaplain's assistant or a friend crouches in the center. For half of July, Marines off of Tripoli supported other Marine units fighting the NVA around Con Thien in Quang Tri province. Navy medical and chaplain personnel supported the Marines throughout the war.
    US Navy photo # K-39790    		 Chin Yu Chu
    Tripoli 76k Wounded Marines on the flight deck of USS Tripoli (LPH-10) waiting transfer to the 22nd Casualty Station at Danang. From Danang they will be evacuated back to the United States, July 1967.
    Photo credit, History By Zim    		 Chin Yu Chu
    Tripoli
    101110125    		 49k Four USS Paul Revere (APA-248) crew members painted the Playboy bunny logo on the stern of USS Tripoli in 1967. Paul Revere’s nickname was “Peter Rabbit”.
    Source: USS Tripoli (LPH 10) WestPac Cruise Book 1967    		 Chin Yu Chu
    Tripoli
    101110132    		 219k USS Tripoli (LPH-10) in port San Diego, CA. in 1967. View of her flight deck. Tommy Trampp
    Tripoli
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    Tripoli
    101110135    		 219k USS Tripoli (LPH-10) outbound to sea from San Diego, CA., passing Point Loma, date unknown.
    ©George Barber.    		 Nicholas Tiberio
    Tripoli
    101110136    		 229k USS Tripoli (LPH-10) underway off San Diego, CA., date unknown.
    ©George Barber.    		 Nicholas Tiberio
    Tripoli 101k A Sikorsky MH-53 Sea Dragon mine countermeasures helicopter taking off from USS Tripoli (LPH-10) while underway off the coast of Vietnam in 1968.
    US Navy photo.    		 Yu Chu
    Tripoli 129k Boeing CH-47 helicopter Yankee Whiskey-Three is marshaled onto the flight deck of USS Tripoli (LPH-10) in the fall of 1968.
    Photo courtesy of Jim Cunnion    		 Chin Yu Chu
    Tripoli 36k Boeing CH-47 helicopter Yankee Whiskey-Five sits on the flight deck of USS Tripoli (LPH-10) in the South China Sea in the fall of 1968. Yu Chu
    Tripoli 45k Boeing CH-47 helicopter Yankee Whiskey-Fourteen sits on the flight deck of USS Tripoli (LPH-10). An incorrectly installed hydraulic servo resulted in disastrous rotor malfunction.
    Photo courtesy of Gene Borsoff     		Yu Chu
    Tripoli 40k USS Tripoli (LPH-10) underway, date and location unknown.
    Photo courtesy of L. Raymond    		 Chin Yu Chu
    Vega 87k USS Vega (AF-59) replenishes USS Tripoli (LPH-10) and USS Thomaston (LSD-28) off the coast of Vietnam, circa 1969.
    US Navy photo.    		 Chin Yu Chu
    Tripoli 116k USS Tripoli (LPH-10), circa October 1971 - August 1972 or March - October 1973, underway in WestPac off the coast of Vietnam. The helicopters on the flight deck belong to the "White Knights" of Marine Squadron HMM-165. Bob Canchola
    Tripoli 54k The last Marines of the US Third Marine Division line up on the pier at Danang, South Vietnam, 29 December 1969, to board USS Tripoli (LPH-10) for redeployment to Okinawa. Formerly stationed around the demilitarized zone and southern areas of the zone the 22,000 man division was part of President Nixon's withdrawal plan.
    AP Wire service photo    		 Tommy Trampp
    Union 206k Shimmering Water surrounds USS Tripoli (LPH-10) and USS Union (LKA-106) berthed together at White Beach Navy pier, Okinawa.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, May 1970, photo by PH2 R. E. Ziel USN.    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    Tripoli 183k USS Tripoli (LPH-10) moored pierside in a shipyard at Singapore, circa January 1972. Tripoli was at Singapore in January 1972 for boiler repairs.
    Photo credit Allen Maddox USMC (Ret)    		 Chin Yu Chu
    BlueRidge
    100119150    		 68k U.S. Navy Amphibious Squadron 5 (PHIBRON 5) underway in the Gulf of Tonkin, in 1972. The Squadron consisted of; the Amphibious Assault Ship USS Tripoli (LPH-10), left; the Amphibious Transport Dock USS Duluth (LPD-6), Dock Landing Ship USS Anchorage (LSD-36); and Attack Transport USS Mobile (LKA-115), right; and the Tank Landing Ship USS Schenectady (LST-1185), not visible. Also visible is the Amphibious Command Ship USS Blue Ridge (LCC-19) on her first deployment. Blue Ridge and Anchorage are replenished by a Mars-class Combat Stores Ship. PHIBRON 5 was deployed to the Western Pacific, the Indian Ocean and Vietnam from 1 October 1971 to 8 August 1972.
    U.S. Navy photo from the USS Mobile (LKA-115) 1971-1972 cruise book    		 Robert Hurst
    Tripoli 79k Damaged Marine Corps UH-1Y Huey Helicopter on the flight deck of USS Tripoli (LPH-10) on Yankee Station in the Gulf of Tonkin, off the coast of South Vietnam circa June or July 1972.
    Photo credit Murrie Hubbard Stars and Stripes    		 Yu Chu
    Tripoli 73k A Ch-46 Marine Corps Sea Knight Helicopter belonging to Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron (HMM-165) takes off from the flight deck of USS Tripoli (LPH-10) in July 1972 while the ship was on Yankee Station in the Gulf of Tonkin, off the coast of South Vietnam.
    Photo credit Murrie Hubbard Stars and Stripes    		 Yu Chu
    Tripoli 123k Philippine students taking part in "Operation Schoolhouse" tour USS Tripoli (LPH-10), circa 1973. "Operation Schoolhouse" began in 1965 at Naval Communications Station Philippines, San Miguel, Zambales, located on the west coast of Luzon. 928 students in the Province of Zambales, who would otherwise not have been able to attend, were sponsored by U.S. Navy crews in 1973 to attend high schools. Over 500 diplomas had been earned by students who would have otherwise foregone the benefits of higher education in one of the poorest regions of the Philippines.
    US Navy photo.    		 Yu Chu
    Tripoli 385k USS Tripoli (LPH-10) underway in Subic Bay, 20 July 1973, after Operation End Sweep. On deck can be seen seven CH-46 Sea Knight assault helicopters. However, none of the large RH-54D Sea Stallion minesweeping helicopters appear on Tripoli's flight deck. Note modifications include the addition of SPN-35 blind-landing radar (in the large radome) and the replacement of half of the original quartet of twin 3"/50 mounts by Mk 25 Sea Sparrow BPDMS launchers (forward of the island and on the port quarter). A self-protective ECM antenna, cantilevered out from the ship's port side at flight deck level just abaft the island, is distinguishable by its shadow. U.S. Navy photo Robert Hurst
    Tripoli
    101110140    		 3223k USS Tripoli (LPH-10) passing under the Golden Gate Bridge at the entrance to San Francisco Bay, March 1981 Photo by CAPT. Mark Heilenday, USN Ret.
    Tripoli
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    Tripoli 144k U.S. Marines walk down to the pier at Okinawa to board USS Tripoli (LPH-10), right, and the amphibious transport dock USS Dubuque (LPD-8). left, in February 1982 to participate in exercise Team Spirit '82. Team Spirit 82 was a joint US and South Korean exercise conducted between 13 February and 26 April 1982 in South Korea.
    US Navy photo by PH1 Bob Weissleder.    		 Yu Chu
    Tripoli 124k U.S. Marines boarding USS Tripoli (LPH-10) at Okinawa in February 1982 to participate in exercise Team Spirit '82. Team Spirit 82 was a joint US and South Korean exercise conducted between 13 February and 26 April 1982 in South Korea.
    US Navy photo by PH2 Paul Soutar.    		 Yu Chu
    Tripoli 460k The experimental tilt-rotor XV-15 aircraft revs its engines, with tie-down chains still in place, on the flight deck of USS Tripoli (LPH-10) during preparations for takeoff, in the Pacific Ocean, 1 August 1983.
    Department of Defense # DN-SN-83-09896 a US Navy photo by R. Stewart now in the collects of DODImagery.mil.    		 Robert M. Cieri
    Tripoli 931k The experimental tilt-rotor XV-15 aircraft executes a vertical take off from the flight deck of USS Tripoli (LPH-10) during at-sea tests of the experimental aircraft, in the Pacific Ocean, 1 August 1983.
    Department of Defense # DN-SN-83-09897 a US Navy photo by R. Stewart now in the collects of DODImagery.mil.    		 Robert M. Cieri
    Tripoli
    10111046    		 91k The experimental tilt-rotor Bell XV-15 aircraft hovers over the deck of USS Tripoli (LPH-10) demonstrating it's capability for carrier operations. One of the aircraft made 54 landings and takeoffs from Tripoli in August 1982. Although the XV-15 configuration was not intended for shipboard operations, the test was successful with only minor difficulties encountered.
    Navel History magazine, February 2022, Page 6    		 Tommy Trampp
    Tripoli 705k USS Tripoli (LPH-10) underway with Boeing-Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight and Sikorsky MH-53E Sea Stallion helicopters on her flight-deck, date and location unknown.
    DoD photo from "Carriers: The Men and The Machines" by David Miller and Lindsay Peacock.    		 Robert Hurst
    Tripoli
    101110131    		 418k USS Tripoli (LPH-10) moored in the National Steel & Shipbuilding Co. at San Diego, CA. shipyard near USNS Regulus (T-AKR-292) and the 70% completed tanker to hospital ship conversion USNS Mercy (T-AH-19), 27 August 1985. A Spruance-class destroyer also can be seen in the distance.
    Photo by National Steel & Shipbuilding Co.    		 Yu Chu
    Tripoli
    101110129    		 228k Bows on view of battleship USS Wisconsin (BB-64) leading USS Tripoli (LPH-10) in the Gulf of Oman, 10 January 1987.
    US Navy photo by PH1 T. Cosgrove now in the collections of the US National Archives     		Yu Chu
    Tripoli
    101110128    		 144k USS Tripoli flight deck and island during flight ops while underway in the Pacific Ocean, 1 May 1987.
    US Navy photo by PH2 Michael Flynn now in the collections of the US National Archives    		 Yu Chu
    Tripoli 388k USS Tripoli (LPH-10) underway at Vancouver B.C., 19 May 1989.
    Photo by Rick Garcia    		 Chris Howell, Southland Ship Stores Limited, Port of Bluff, N.Z.
    Tripoli 326k USS Tripoli (LPH-10) underway in 1991, location unknown.  
    Tripoli 588k A starboard bow view of the battleship USS Wisconsin (BB-64) followed by USS Tripoli (LPH-10) underway during in the Persian Gulf during operation Desert Storm, circa August 1990 - March 1991.
    US Navy photo by PH1 T. Cosgrove    		 Yu Chu, courtesy Ray D. Beans Collection
    Tripoli 1099k USS Tripoli (LPH-10) in dry dock for repairs to a hole in her starboard bow caused by an Iraqi mine. Tripoli struck the mine, 18 February 1991, while serving as a mine-clearing platform in the northern Persian Gulf during Operation Desert Storm. The ship was able to continue operations after damage control crews stopped the flooding caused by the explosion.
    US Navy photo by JO1 Gawlowicz.    		 Robert Hurst
    Tripoli 107k Close up view of damage to USS Tripoli (LPH-10)s hull as a result of a mine hit during Operation DESERT STORM, April 1991.
    US Navy photo    		  
    Yu Chu.
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    Tripoli 268k View of the repaired section of USS Tripoli (LPH-10)'s hull while in drydock at Bahrain, 1 April 1991. Tripoli was damaged by an Iraqi mine in the Persian Gulf during Operation Desert Storm on 18 February 1991. Note the Purple Heart image painted on the hull where the mine was struck.
    US National Archives photo    		 Yu Chu
    Tripoli
    101110130    		 248k USS Tripoli (LPH-10) commanding officer CAPT. Bruce B McEwen, USN removes a symbolic band-aid from the ship's hull in celebration of her repair at Bahrain, 1 April 1991.
    US Navy photo by JO2 Hatzakos now in the collections of the US National Archives    		 Yu Chu
    Tripoli 287k Sailors man the rails aboard USS Tripoli (LPH-10) as the ship returns to her homeport of San Diego, 8 August 1991. Tripoli suffered hull damage when she struck an Iraqi mine, 18 February 1991 while patrolling in the Persian Gulf during Operation Desert Storm. The vessel underwent repair in Bahrain and then completed her deployment before returning to Naval Station, San Diego
    US Navy photo by JO1(AW) Joseph F. Lancaster    		 Yu Chu
    Tripoli
    101110126    		 107k Six Marines aboard USS Tripoli (LPH-10) stand along the rail while the ship is underway in the Indian Ocean. In the background are four USMC CH-46 Sea Knight scouting the area prior to the landing of troops in Somalia as part of Operation Restore Hope, 8 December, 1992.
    Source: U.S. National Archives photo    		 Yu Chu
    Tripoli 90k USS Tripoli (LPH-10) underway, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo    		 Dennis Stephenson SMC USN Ret
    Tripoli 88k USS Tripoli (LPH-10) underway, date and location unknown. Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret.
    Tripoli 131k USS Tripoli (LPH-10) underway, date and location unknown. Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret.
    Tripoli 447k Port bow view of USS Tripoli (LPH-10) underway in 1993, location unknown.
    US Navy photo.    		 Lee Wahler
    Tripoli
    101110124    		 243k USS Tripoli (LPH-10) island as seen from her flight deck at Vancouver, Canada in January 1, 1995. Yu Chu
    Tripoli
    101110137    		 223k USS Tripoli (LPH-10) underway, date and location unknown. Nicholas Tiberio
    Tripoli
    101110138    		 166k USS Tripoli (LPH-10) underway outbound to sea in the harbor at San Diego, CA.date unknown.
    © George Barber    		 Nicholas Tiberio
    Ex-USS Tripoli (LPH-10)
    Tripoli 205k Decommissioned USS Tripoli (LPH-10) underway off the coast of southern California 1995.
    US Navy photo # 950910-N-0000U-003.    		 Bill Gonyo
    Tripoli 60k Ex-USS Tripoli (LPH-10) moored at ex-US Naval Shipyard Mare Island, December 2000 Gerhard Mueller Debus
    Tripoli 49k Ex-USS Tripoli (LPH-10) moored at ex-US Naval Shipyard Mare Island, Vallejo, CA., 2 July 2002 Photo by Daniel Dunham
    Tripoli 135k Ex-USS Tripoli (LPH-10) moored at ex-US Naval Shipyard Mare Island, circa 2001 Joe Lombardi Ocean Technical Services
    Tripoli 33k Ex-USS Tripoli (LPH-10) moored at ex-US Naval Shipyard Mare Island, Vallejo, CA., 14 January 2003 G. Jeanette
    Tripoli 89k Ex-USS Tripoli (LPH-10) moored at ex-US Naval Shipyard Mare Island, mid-March 2004 Jim R. Huffman
    Tripoli 110k Ex-USS Tripoli (LPH-10) moored at ex-US Naval Shipyard Mare Island, mid-April 2004 Jim R. Huffman
    Tripoli 64k Ex-USS Tripoli (LPH-10) moored at ex-US Naval Shipyard Mare Island, 14 June 2004 Sam Stokes, Hole in the Head Press
    Tripoli
    101110123    		 144k Ex-USS Tripoli (LPH-10) moored at ex-US Naval Shipyard Mare Island, 30 September 2006.
    Photo by Jack Snell    		 Yu Chu
    Tripoli 421k Ex-USS Tripoli (LPH-10) under tow by Narragansett outbound for sea south of Angel Island in San Francisco Bay, 1 May 2008. CAPT. Jack C. Goldthorpe, USCG Ret.
    Tripoli 297k Ex-USS Tripoli (LPH-10) under tow by Narragansett outbound for sea south of Angel Island in San Francisco Bay, 1 May 2008. CAPT. Jack C. Goldthorpe, USCG Ret.
    Tripoli 1098k Ex-USS Tripoli (LPH-10) under tow by Narragansett outbound for sea south of Angel Island in San Francisco Bay, 1 May 2008. CAPT. Jack C. Goldthorpe, USCG Ret.
    Tripoli 1529k Ex-USS Tripoli (LPH-10) under tow by Narragansett at Presido Shoals, San Francisco Bay, bound for the former Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 16 October 2008. CAPT. Jack C. Goldthorpe, USCG Ret.
    Tripoli 60k Ex-USS Tripoli (LPH-10) moored at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 27 October 2008. CAPT. Jack C. Goldthorpe, USCG Ret.
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    Tripoli 271k Ex-USS Tripoli (LPH-10) in San Francisco Bay, 6 February 2009, as a flat tow being moved by tugs from the former U S Naval Shipyard, Mare Island, CA to pier 80, San Francisco. CAPT. Jack C. Goldthorpe, USCG Ret.
    Tripoli 932k Ex-USS Tripoli (LPH-10) being towed out of San Diego Bay, date unknown. Robert Hurst
    Tripoli 46k Ex-USS Tripoli (LPH-10) as a launching platform for a small ballistic missile. In December 2006, the ship was towed to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, where it now has a high-tech role as a launch platform with the nation's developing ballistic missile defense program. Three times the ship was towed some 100 miles off shore and used to launch small ballistic missiles, which are then intercepted by Terminal High Altitude Area Defense Missiles, test-fired from the Pacific Missile Range Facility. The last test in the series was performed 26 October, when the ship fired a "Scud-like" missile, which was successfully intercepted. The ship will be towed back to the San Francisco Bay Area for the winter. Kaua'i lacks a suitable land-based launch site, and the costs of building one would far exceed the approximately $600,000 per year it costs to use the old warship, so the vessel returned to Pearl Harbor for a second series of tests in late spring 2008. As of 10 September 2011 she is at port at Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam, HI.
    US Government photo.    		 Robert Hurst
    Tripoli 129k Ex-USS Tripoli (LPH-10) moored at San Francisco, CA., 19 March 2012. The ship is serving as a mobile launch platform as part of the Ballistic Missile Defense Program. Note the "MLP 1" markings on the stern.
    Photo by Thoralf Doehring.    		 Wolfgang Hechler, courtesy Thoralf Doehring Navysite.de
    Tripoli 157k Ex-USS Tripoli (LPH-10) moored pierside at San Francisco, CA. 19 March 2012.
    Photo by Thoralf Doehring.    		 Yu Chu, courtesy Thoralf Doehring Navysite.de
    Tripoli 186k Ex-USS Tripoli (LPH-10) being towed into Pearl Harbor, date unknown. Lee Wahler
    Tripoli 67k Ex-USS Tripoli (LPH-10) in the Panama Canal, 26, March 2015. Ex-Tripoli was under dead tow by Narragansett. Vern Bouwman
    Tripoli 141k Ex-USS Tripoli (LPH-10) in the Panama Canal coming out of Gaillard Cut and heading into Gatun Lake near the town of Gamboa., 26, March 2015. Ex-Tripoli was under dead tow by Narragansett. The Panama Canal tug acts as a rudder during transit. Photos by Bill Fall
    Tripoli 151k
    Tripoli 274k
    Tripoli 251k Ex-USS Tripoli (LPH-10) arriving at the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Beaumont, TX, 14 April 2015.
    US Maritime Administration Photo    		 Tommy Trampp
    Tripoli 42k Ex-USS Tripoli (LPH-10) at Brownsville, TX. ready for dismantling by International Shipbreaking LLC, 16 July 2018.
    Photos ©The Brownsville Hearld.    		 Austin Oliver
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    Tripoli
    101110119    		 242k Ex-USS Tripoli (LPH-10) being dismantled at International Shipbreaking LLC, Brownsville, TX., 31 May 2019. Photos by Christopher Holley
    Tripoli
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    Tripoli
    101110121    		 221k
    Tripoli
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    USS Tripoli (LPH-10) Memorabilia
    Tripoli
    Commissioning Program
    Contributed by
    Robert M. Cieri    		 Tripoli
    Decommissioning Program
    Contributed by
    Robert M. Cieri

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  • LPH-10
  • USS Tripoli (LPH-10)
    • Commanding Officers
    01CAPT. Suerstedt Jr., Henry :RADM6 August 1966 - 7 September 1967
    02CAPT. Adams, William Lee, USN 7 September 1967 - 16 August 1968
    03CAPT. Shelton, Doniphan Brown (Don) :RADM16 August 1968 - 29 August 1969
    04CAPT. Hartley Jr., Paul J.29 August 1969 - 26 August 1970
    05CAPT. O'Rourke, Vincent F. 26 August 1970 - 10 September 1971
    06CAPT. Gammon, James Montgomery, USN (USNA 1948-A) 10 September 1971 - 2 December 1972
    07CAPT. Lockwood, Warren Harvey2 December 1972 - 5 April 1974
    08CAPT. Kempf, Cecil Jos, USN (USNA 1950) :VADM5 April 1974 - 7 November 1975
    09CAPT. Levenson, Lee Edward :RADM7 November 1975 - 5 August 1977
    10CAPT. Smith, Alfred Anderson (Pete)5 August 1977 - 23 April 1979
    11CAPT. Haines, Collins Henry23 April 1979 - 16 January 1981
    12CAPT. McGrail Jr., Charles Reynolds :RADM 16 January 1981 - 1 June 1981
    13CAPT. Higginson, John Joseph :RADM1 June 1981 - 28 July 1982
    14CAPT. Clift, Thomas Alvin, USN (USNA 1959)28 July 1982 - 29 February 1984
    15CAPT. Spane, Robert Johnson (Rocky), USN (USNA 1962) :VADM 29 February 1984 - 30 July 1985
    16CAPT. Todd, Terrence Stephen30 July 1985 - 14 April 1987
    17CAPT. Love III, George Paul, USN (USNA 1963)14 April 1987 - 21 October 1988
    18CAPT. Peterson, Eric Laurence21 October 1988 - 30 April 1990
    19CAPT. McEwen, G. Bruce 30 April 1990 - 20 September 1991
    20CAPT. Hutchison, John Rudolph (J.R.), USN (USNA 1969)20 September 1991 - 20 May 1993
    21CAPT. Gallic, Frank Michael 20 May 1993 - 16 September 1994
    22CAPT. Willard, Robert Frederick, USN (USNA 1973) :ADM16 September 1994 - 2 June 1995
    23CAPT. Walters, Clyde T.2 June 1995 - 15 September 1995
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    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
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