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Deployments

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moved to talk This list is too detailed, to much just a list, and badly formatted. RJFJR (talk) 20:32, 16 June 2017 (UTC)Reply

May 1970; Caribbean
April 1971 – Oct 71 Mediterranean
August 1972; Caribbean
November 1973 – June 1974; Regular Overhaul
August 1974 – Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
January 1975 – March 1975; Caribbean
August 1975 ; Caribbean
October 1975 – December 1975; North Atlantic
March 1976; Caribbean
June 1976 – December 1976; Mediterranean
June 1977; Caribbean
February 1978 – August 1978; Mediterranean
September 1978 – September 1979; Regular Overhaul

Initially dry docked at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, followed by move to Horn Brother, Newport News, Virginia. Commander William Naldrett relieves Commander Fred – June 1979.

October 1979; Guantanamo Bay, Cuba/Haiti

Refresher training after Regular Overhaul included a post visit to Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

February 1980; North Atlantic

12 March 1980 – Crosses Arctic Circle off the coast of Norway.

July 1980; Caribbean
August 1980 – February 1981; North Atlantic-Mediterranean–Indian Ocean
5 November 1980 – Shellback Initiation off the coast of Kenya crossing the Equator
Early December 1980 - Supporting Amphibious landings on the island of Sardinia and training in Italy with port calls to Naples and Gaieta, Italy
December Holiday Season and New Years in Malaga, Spain
January 1981 - 2 of four engines fail and one shaft fails. Ship under tow. Embarked Navy SEEBEES cut through decks to move remaining good engine to good shaft. Ship makes 8 knots back to the USA under her own power.
February 1981 - Return to Morehead City, NC, USA to offload embarked Marines
February 1981 - Return to Naval Amphibous Base, Little Creek, VA
January 1982 – Mediterranean-Indian Ocean

17 March 1982 – Fire destroys No. 3 Engine Room while anchored in the port of Berbera, Somalia

April 1982 – December 1982; yard period
December 1982; Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
January 1983 – April 1983; North Atlantic
September 1984 – February 1985; Mediterranean
April 1986; Caribbean Included port call in St. John's, Antigua
August 1986 – October 1986; Northern Wedding Included crossing of Arctic Circle in August, port calls in Bergen, Norway and Edinburgh, Scotland and traverse of Kiel Canal, Germany
January 1987 – August 1987; Mediterranean, Included port calls in Genoa and Naples, Italy; Marseilles and Villefranche sur mer, France; Valencia, Spain; and Lisbon, Portugal; Completed OPPE on return trip
December 1988 – June 1989; Mediterranean
September 1989 – March 1990; regular overhaul
April 1990; Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
August 1990 – March 1991; Mediterranean – West Africa

December 1990 – Shellback Initiation off the coast of Liberia

November 1991 – June 1992; Mediterranean
September 1992; decommissioned

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