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USS Tripoli (LPH 10)
- decommissioned -





USS TRIPOLI was the fifth IWO JIMA - class amphibious assault ship (helicopter). Decommissioned and stricken from the Navy list on September 15, 1995, TRIPOLI is since then laid up at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, Ca.

USS TRIPOLI has earned the following awards: Combat Action Ribbon (3 awards), Joint Meritorious Unit Award, Navy Unit Commendation (4 awards), Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation, Navy "E" Ribbon (2 awards), National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Southwest Asia Service Medal, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (3 awards), Republic of Vietnam Meritorious Unit Citation for Gallantry, and the Vietnam Campaign Medal.

General Characteristics: Awarded: December 10, 1962
Keel laid: June 15, 1964
Launched: July 31, 1965
Commissioned: August 6, 1966
Decommissioned: September 15, 1995
Builder: Ingalls Shipbuilding, West Bank, Pascagoula, Miss.
Propulsion system: Two boilers, one geared steam turbines, one shaft, 22,000 total shaft horsepower
Propellers: one
Length: 603, 65 feet (184 meters)
Beam: 104 feet (31.7 meters)
Draft: 25,9 feet (7.9 meters)
Aircraft elevators: two
Displacement: approx. 19,500 tons full load
Speed: 23 knots
Aircraft: 20 UH-46D Sea Knight Helicopters, 10 MH-53E Sea Stallion Helicopters, 3 UH-1 Helicopters, 3 AH-1 Helicopters but the actual mix depends upon mission
Armament: two Phalanx CIWS, two Mk-25 Sea Sparrow Missile Launchers
Crew: 80 officers, 638 enlisted, 1,750 Marine Detachment


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Crew List:

This section contains the names of sailors who served aboard USS TRIPOLI. It is no official listing but contains the names of sailors who submitted their information.



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Accidents aboard USS TRIPOLI:

Date Where Events
February 18, 1991 off Faylaka Island,
Persian Gulf While assigned to a MCM force sweeping toward the shore of Faylaka Island during the Gulf War on January 17, USS TRIPOLI and the other ships of the MCM force were targeted by Iraqi Silkworm anti-ship missile fire control radars. The MCM force moved out of the missiles' range and after coalition forces destroyed the missile site, the ships returned to the area on January 18, at 0240 local time.

At 0345, after operating for 11 hours in an undetected Iraqi minefield, the USS TRIPOLI hit a moored Iraqi contact mine creating an explosion and ripping a 16 by 20 foot hole below the water line. As USS AVENGER (MCM 1) and USS LEADER attempted to assist the damaged warship, USS PRINCETON (CG 59), while unknowingly heading along a line of Manta mines, continued to provide air defense for the MCM Group but at 0715, also hit a Manta mine in 16 meters of water. As damage control teams overcame fires and flooding aboard USS TRIPOLI and USS PRINCETON, the minesweepers USS IMPERVIOUS, USS LEADER, and USS AVENGER searched for additional mines in the area.

USS TRIPOLI was able to continue her mission for several days before being relieved by USS LA SALLE (AGF 3) and USS NEW ORLEANS (LPH 11).

USS TRIPOLI then proceeded to Bahrain for repair where the photos below were taken.








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Colossus Class Carriers
Light Fleet Carriers (CVL)


Displacement:13,400 tons standard; 18,330 tons full load
Dimensions: 630 pp, 650 wl, 695 oa x 80 x 23.5 feet
Propulsion: Steam Turbines (4 Admiralty 3-drum boilers, 2 shafts, Parsons geared turbines), 40,000 shp.
Speed: 25 knots
Range: 12,000 miles at 14 knots
Compliment: 1300 (including air group)
Aircraft: 48
Armament: 24 x 2 pdr AA; 32 x 20 mm

Scaled down version of Illustrious Class but with a large aircraft compliment achieved by a lack of armour. Designed for rapid construction in merchant yards to make up for the shortfall in carriers but much more capable than escort carriers. Perseus and Pioneer were completed as maintenance carriers without catapults. After the war various units of the class were sold or reconstructed with angled decks or as helicopter carriers.


HMS Colossus
Built by Vickers Armstrong, Newcastle. Laid down 1st June 1942.
Launched 30th September 1943. Commissioned 16th December 1944.
Loaned to France as Arromanches from August 1946; purchased by France 1951.
Reconstructed with 4 degree angled flight deck 1957-58. Converted to ASW carrier 1968 and operating 24 helicopters. Decommissioned 1974, broken up at Toulon 1978.


HMS Vengeance
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Built by Swan Hunter. Laid down 16th November 1942.
Launched 23rd February 1944. Commissioned 15th January 1945.
Transferred to the Royal Australian Navy from 1953 to August 1955.
Sold to Brazil as Minas Gerais late 1956. Refitted at Rotterdam 1957-1960 with 8.5 degree angled deck. Overhauled 1976-1980. Laid up 1987 due to catapult problems.
She is still active [photo], [photo #2] and has been used as an ASW carrier (all aircraft & pilots belong to the Air Force). This year (1997) she has seen maneouvres as an attack carrier with Argentina Naval Aviation Super Etendards attack planes, ANA Sea Kings & ANA pilots as part of the widening collaboration between Argentina & Brazil.
Thanks to Eduardo Mitchell of IPMS Sweden for the information and photos.


HMS Venerable
Built by Cammell Laird. Laid down 3rd December 1942.
Launched 30th December 1943. Commissioned 17th January 1945.
Sold to the Netherlands as HrMs Karel Doorman in May 1958. Reconstructed 1955-1958 with 8 degree angled deck. Paid off from Dutch service April 1968 due to a boiler room fire. Sold to Argentina as ARA 25 de Mayo with Argentina's Navy and refitted with replacement boilers from the incomplete HMS Leviathan. Commissioned into Argentinean Navy 22 August 1969. Out of service since June 1986, currently nothing more than a hulk although not yet stricken.


HMS Pioneer
[photo]
Built by Vickers Armstrong, Barrow. Laid down 2nd December 1942.
Launched 20th May 1944. Commissioned 8th February 1945 as maintenance support ship.
Carried no aircraft but had workshops, cranes and guns fitted on her flightdeck.
Broken up at Inverkeithing September 1954.


HMS Glory
[photo]
Built by Harland & Wolff. Laid down 27th August 1942.
Launched 27th November 1943. Commissioned 2nd April 1945.
1951-53 Korean War service.
Reserve 1956-1961. Broken up at Inverkeithing 1961.


HMS Ocean
[photo] [photo #2]
Built by Stephen. Laid down 8th November 1942.
Launched 8th July 1944. Commissioned 8th August 1945.
Host to first carrier landing by a jet aircraft, 3rd December 1945, off the Isle of White.
Commando carrier at Suez, November 1956. Reserve 1957. Stricken 1960.
Broken up at Faslane, May 1962.


HMS Perseus
[photo]
Built by Vickers Armstrong, Newcastle. Laid down 1st June 1942.
Launched 26th March 1944. Commissioned 19th October 1945 as maintenance support ship. Designated a ferry carrier 1953 and present at the Coronation Review.
Broken up May 1958 at Port Glasgow.


HMS Theseus
[photo]
Built by Fairfield. Laid down 6th January 1943.
Launched 6th July 1944. Commissioned 9th January 1946.
Commando carrier at Suez, November 1956. Reserve 1958.
Stricken 1960. Broken up May 1962 at Inverkeithing.


HMS Triumph
[photo]
Built by Hawthorn Leslie. Laid down 27th January 1943.
Launched 2nd October 1944. Commissioned 9th April 1946.
Reserve mid 1950s. Converted to heavy repair ship 1958-1965.
Paid off 1975. Stricken 1980. Broken up 1981 in Spain.


HMS Warrior
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Built by Harland & Wolff. Laid down 12th December 1942.
Launched 20th May 1944. Completed 24th January 1946.
Loaned to Royal Canadian Navy 1946-48 and not commissioned into RN until November 1948. Headquarters ship for the atom bomb tests on Christmas Island.
Sold to Argentina as Independencia 1958. Commissioned 26th January 1959.
Stricken from Argentinean Navy 1971. Broken up.

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