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09034207 |
38k | USS Acadia (AD-42) | Yu Chu | |
554k | USS Acadia (AD-42) launching, 14 February 1978, at National Steel and Shipbuilding, San Diego, CA., San Diego, CA.
NASSCO |
S. Dale Hargrave | ||
146k | USS Acadia (AD-42) under way in the harbor at San Diego, CA., in 1982. | Mike Smolinski | ||
55k | USS Acadia (AD-42) under way with
USS Fresno (LST-1182), 1 November 1982, location unknown. US Defenseimagery.mil photo VIRIN: DN-SC-86-02389 |
Robert Hurst | ||
09034204 |
400k | USS Acadia (AD-42) under way with
USS Fresno (LST-1182), 1 November 1982, location unknown. US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives |
Yu Chu | |
09034206 |
594k | USS Acadia (AD-42) outbound from San Diego to sea, 14 April 1987. US Navy photo by PH1 Dupree now in the collections of the US National Archives |
Yu Chu | |
53k | USS Acadia (AD-42) moored pierside in the Gulf of Oman, circa 1987. | Yu Chu, Photo by Geraldo Soto | ||
09034232 |
292k | USS Acadia (AD-42) services, from left, the guided missile cruiser
USS Josephus Daniels (CG-27), the guided
missile cruiser USS England (CG-22), and, at right, the ocean minesweepers
USS Fearless (MSO-442) and
USS Conquest (MSO-488), 1 December 1988.
Arcadia is on a six-month Western Pacific deployment.
US National Archives Identifier: 6442346, a US Navy photo by PH1 Veronica L. Head. |
Yu Chu | |
09034210 |
250k | USS Acadia (AD-42) crew members inspect life vests aboard a motor whaleboat, Naval Station San Diego, 30 January 1988.
US Navy photo by PH1 Michael Flynn |
Yu Chu | |
09034231 |
241k | USS Acadia (AD-42) Commanding Officer CAPT Gerald M. Grunwald takes part in a videotaped interview on the ship's bridge, 24 January 1989.
US National Archives Identifier: 6441919, a US Navy photo by PH2 Ronald Otero |
Yu Chu | |
09034203 |
355k | Homecoming, the commercial tug Cheryl Anne pushes USS Acadia (AD-42) toward her berth at Naval Station San Diego, 25 April 1991.
Acadia is returning to San Diego following her deployment to the Persian Gulf region for Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm.
US Navy photo by JO2 Gawlowicz, now in the collections of the US National Archives. |
Yu Chu | |
09034208 |
151k | Homecoming, USS Acadia (AD-42) returns to San Diego, 24 April 1991, following her deployment to the Persian Gulf region for Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm.
US Navy photo by JOSN Mark Burton now in the collections of the US National Archives. |
Yu Chu | |
09034213 |
77k | Homecoming, dependents wait on the pier as USS Acadia (AD-42) ties at San Diego, 24 April 1991,
following the ship's deployment to the Persian Gulf region for Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm.
US Navy photo |
Yu Chu | |
09034209 |
142k | Homecoming, USS Acadia (AD-42) crew members disembark at San Diego, 24 April 1991, following the ship's deployment to the Persian Gulf region for Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm. | Yu Chu | |
09034212 |
104k | Homecoming, a USS Acadia (AD-42) holds his son on the pier at San Diego, 24 April 1991,
following the ship's deployment to the Persian Gulf region for Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm.
US Navy photo |
Yu Chu | |
203k | USS Acadia (AD-42) with the destroyer
USS Oldendorf (DD-972) and the guided missile
frigate USS Curts (FFG-38) alongside. US Navy photo from USS Acadia newspaper "Tendergram" November 1990. |
Robert Hurst | ||
43k | USS Acadia (AD-42) with the guided missile frigate
USS Stark (FFG-31) alongside, date and location unknown. US Navy photo. |
Robert Hurst | ||
09034205 |
265k | USS Acadia (AD-42) at anchor with a platform secured to her port side, 1 April 1992. Acadia is deployed to the Persian Gulf in
support of Operation Desert Shield. US Navy photo by PH2 John C. Carnes, now in the collections of the US National Archives |
Yu Chu | |
09034235 |
162k | USS Acadia (AD-42) underway off San Diego, CA., date unknown.
©George Barber |
Nicholas Tiberio | |
09034236 |
175k | USS Acadia (AD-42) outbound to sea passing Point Loma while exiting San Diego Bay, date unknown.
©George Barber |
Nicholas Tiberio | |
55k | Ex-USS Acadia (AD-42) laid up at NISMF Pearl Harbor, 1 August 2000 | Photo by Jim Bedient | ||
62k | Ex-USS Acadia (AD-42) laid up at NISMF Pearl Harbor, 1 August 2000 | Photo by Jim Bedient | ||
09034211 |
72k | Ships laid up at NISMF Pearl Harbor from top to bottom, ex-USS Duluth (LPD-6), ex-USS Acadia (AD-42), ex-USS Durham LKA-114) and ex-USS St. Louis (LKA-116), 26 July 2006. | Photo by Yu Chu | |
74k | Ex-USS Acadia (AD-42) is the target during a sinkex off the coast of Guam during exercise Valiant Shield, 20 September 2010. Photo from USS Acadia web site. |
Mike Hibbard | ||
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577k | Ex-USS Acadia (AD-42) lies on her starboard side off the coast of Guam as a guided bomb detonates against the hull during a day-long bombardment of ordnance delivered from Naval aircraft and ships during exercise Valiant Shield. US Navy photo # 100920-N-6720T-182 PACIFIC OCEAN (Sept. 20, 2010) by MC Adam K. Thomas. |
Mike Hibbard | ||
1137k | Ex-USS Acadia (AD-42) floats capsized off the coast of Guam as an HH-60H Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to the Chargers of
Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron (HS-14) prepares to fire a MK-46 Mod 5A (S) Anti-Submarine Warfare torpedo at the ship. The sinking of Acadia is part of a day-long bombardment of ordnance delivered from Naval aircraft and ships during exercise Valiant Shield. US Navy photo # 100920-N-6720T-214 PACIFIC OCEAN (Sept. 20, 2010) by MC Adam K. Thomas. |
Mike Hibbard |
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Commanding Officers | ||
01 | CAPT. Hardy, Brenton Philip | 6 June 1981 - 5 May 1983 |
02 | CAPT. Finch Jr., Parker T. | 5 May 1983 - 22 March 1985 |
03 | CAPT. Harness, Francis William :RADM | 22 March 1985 - 3 April 1987 |
04 | CAPT. Grunwald, Gerald Max | 3 April 1987 - 13 March 1989 |
05 | CAPT. King, Larry L. | 13 March 1989 - 30 April 1991 |
06 | CAPT. Eckler, Joseph F. | 30 April 1991 - 10 June 1991 |
07 | CAPT. Grunwald, Gerald Max | 10 June 1991 - 30 September 1991 |
08 | CAPT. Wilson, Charles H. | 30 September 1991 - 16 July 1993 |
09 | CAPT. Liuzzi, Donato A., USN | 16 July 1993 - 16 December 1994 |
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