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USS Vancouver (LPD-2)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Victor - Alpha - November
NVAN
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons




Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Joint Meritorious Unit Award - Navy Unit Commendation (2) - Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation
Second Row - Navy Battle "E" Ribbon - Navy Expeditionary Medal (1-Iran/Indian Ocean) - National Defense Service Medal
Third Row - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (2-Vietnam, 1 Op. Eagle Pull, 1-Op. Frequent Wind) - *Vietnam Service Medal (10 or 11) - Southwest Asia Service Medal
Fourth Row - Humanitarian Service Medal (1-Eagle Pull, 1-Frequent Wind) - Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross Unit Citation (10) - Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Raleigh Class Amphibious Transport Dock:
  • Laid down, 19 November 1960, at New York Naval Shipyard, Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Launched, 15 September 1962
  • Commissioned USS Vancouver (LPD-2), 11 May 1963
  • During the Vietnam War USS Vancouver (LPD-2) participated in the following campaigns:

    Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal Vietnam Service Medal
    Campaigns and Dates Campaigns and Dates
    Vietnam Advisory Campaign
    9 February to 13 March 1965
    13 to 18 April 1965 Vietnam Summer-Fall 1969
    26 to 28 August 1969
    9 September to 23 October 1969 Vietnamese Defense
    24 to 25 August 1965 Vietnam Winter-Spring 1970
    15 to 25 November 1969
    7 to 15 December 1969
    30 December 1969 to 10 January 1970
    9 to 12 February 1970
    10 to 13 March 1970 Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase II
    13 August to 1 September 1966
    13 to 28 September 1966
    7 October to 11 November 1966
    31 December 1966 to 17 January 1967
    13 February to 4 March 1967 Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase VII
    8 to 11 July 1970
    8 to 12 August 1970
    1 to 3 May 1971
    12 to 13 May 1971
    20 to 22 May 1971
    13 to 15 June 1971
    18 to 20 June 1971 Tet Counteroffensive
    22 to 24 February 1968
    1 March to 1 April 1968 Consolidation I
    15 to 16 July 1971
    13 to 14 August 1971
    5 to 6 September 1971
    10 to 15 September 1971 Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase IV
    2 to 15 April 1968
    1 March to 15 April 1968
    27 April to 17 June 1968 Vietnam Ceasefire
    9 to 10 July 1972 Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase V
    6 July to 20 August 1968
    1 September 1968 *Vietnam Evacuation (Operation Frequent Wind)
    29 to 30 April 1975
  • Decommissioned, 27 March 1992, at Naval Station San Diego, CA.
  • Laid up in the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility (NISMF), Pearl Harbor, HI., maintenance category X
  • Struck from Naval Register, 8 April 1997
  • USS Vancouver (LPD-2) earned the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal and the Vietnam Service Medal with ten campaign stars for Vietnam War service and Op. Frequent Wind of eleven campaign stars if the Armed Forces Medal is exchanged for the 18th Vietnam campaign, Operation Frequent Wind
  • Custody transferred to the Maritime Administration, 29 November 2001 of lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia, CA.
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, date unknown, to International Shipbreaking LTD, Brownsville, TX., for 657,000ドル
  • Withdrawn from the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet anchorage for hull cleaning at Mare Island Drydocks, 21 February 2013, cost to the Federal Government 530,000,ドル expected completion, 8 March 2013
    Specifications:
    Displacement 8,650 t.(lt) 14,113 t.(fl)
    Length 522 '
    Beam 100'
    Draft 23'
    Speed 20 kts.
    Complement 436
    Troop Accommodations 1,000
    Armament
    (as built) four twin 3"/50 gun mounts
    (early 1970s) three twin 3"/50 gun mounts, one CIWS
    Propulsion
    two Boilers
    two Geared Turbines
    two Propellers, 24,000shp
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    Vancouver 39k Vancouver (LPD-2) under construction at New York Navy Yard in 1962.
    Vancouver 197k USS Vancouver (LPD-2) under way near the New York Navy Yard in 1963.
    US Navy photo from 1966/67 edition of "Jane's Fighting Ships".    		 Robert Hurst
    Vancouver 305k USS Vancouver (LPD-2) under way in 1963, location unknown. Note staggered funnels, boats stowed between funnels, and helicopter control tower outboard of after funnel. Note two LCPLs on the boat deck which are lowered by crane.
    US Navy photo from 1968/69 edition of "Jane's Fighting Ships".    		 Robert Hurst
    Vancouver 132k USS Vancouver (LPD-2) with her stern gate open during amphibious operations, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, June 1964    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    Vancouver 98k USS Vancouver (LPD-2) arrives at San Diego, 13 August 1964.
    US Navy photo    		 Robert M. Cieri
    LCU-1476 152k LCU-1476 back loading Third Battalion/Third Marines to USS Vancouver (LPD-2) from USS Thomaston (LSD-28) at Subic Bay, date unknown. Jerry Patterson ENCS USN Ret LCU-1624
    Iwo Jima 320k During Operation Deckhouse V the three ships of a 20-knot "amphibious ready group" steam toward the objective site, 4 January 1967. Ships from front to back are;
    USS Iwo Jima (LPH-2), USS Thomaston (LSD-28), and USS Vancouver (LPD-2).
    US National Archives Catalog #: USN 1119682, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.    		 Tommy Trampp
    Vancouver 710k Port bow view of USS Vancouver (LPD-2) off the coast of Oahu, HI.
    US Navy photo # USN 1121666 by PH3 D.R. Hyder, dated 4 February 1967.    		 Robert M. Cieri and Chris Stanley , from the collection of CDR Thomas B. Ray USS Essex
    Vancouver 85k USS Vancouver (LPD-2) off the Vietnam coast near DMZ, during amphibious ops, 1969. Photo by William P Jones MD,
    ex Medical Officer USS Niagara Falls
    Vancouver 1239k A Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron Twelve (HM-12) MH-53 helicopter landing on USS Vancouver (LPD-2) while moored to the Alava Pier at Naval Base Subic Bay, circa summer 1973 Photo by CDR. Michale Cosgrove USS Conquest
    Vancouver 77k USS Vancouver (LPD-2) outbound from San Diego in 1974.
    US Navy photo    		 Robert M. Cieri
    Vancouver 536k USS Vancouver (LPD-2) refueling from USNS Taluga (T-AO-62) in the Gulf of Siam during Operation Eagle Pull in March 1975. Photo by Richard Spring, CMDCM (SW/AW) USN Ret.
    Vancouver 96k USS Vancouver (LPD-2) off Silver Strand at Coronado, CA., 28 April 1976.
    US Navy photo    		 Robert M. Cieri
    Vancouver
    10090241    		 165k USS Vancouver (LPD-2) underway off San Diego, CA., date unknown.
    ©George Barber    		 Nicholas Triberio
    Vancouver 70k USS Vancouver (LPD-2) off San Diego, circa 1980. Bob Thomaston
    Vancouver 113k USS Vancouver (LPD-2) under way, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo.    		 Wendell Royce McLaughlin Jr.
    Vancouver 51k USS Vancouver (LPD-2) moored pierside at San Francisco, CA. during Fleet Week, October 1982. Photo by Robert M. Cieri
    Vancouver 73k USS Vancouver (LPD-2) under way in San Francisco Bay during Fleet Week, October 1982. Photo by Robert M. Cieri
    Vancouver 2077k Port beam view of USS Vancouver (LPD-2) under way, 1 September 1989, during the combined Thai/U.S. joint exercise Thalay Thai '89.
    DVIC photo # DN-ST-90-05692 (1 September 1989) A US Navy Photo by PH1 Michael D. P. Flynn, now in the collections of the Defense Visual Information Center.    		 Robert M. Cieri
    Vancouver 55k USS Vancouver (LPD-2) moored in the stream at Hong Kong, 24 November 1989. William Chiu
    Vancouver
    10090242    		 229k USS Vancouver (LPD-2) underway, outbound to sea from San Diego, CA. with Point Loma in the background, date unknown.
    ©George Barber    		 Nicholas Triberio
    Vancouver
    10090243    		 185k USS Vancouver (LPD-2) underway off San Diego, CA., date unknown.
    ©George Barber    		 Nicholas Triberio
    Vancouver 1579k Aerial port side view of USS Vancouver (LPD-2) arriving on station in the North Arabian Sea, 12 January 1991, for Operation Desert Shield & Operation Desert Storm.
    DVIC photo # DN-SC-05-01656 from the collections of the Defense Visual Information Center.    		 Robert M. Cieri
    Vancouver 36k Aerial starboard side view of USS Vancouver (LPD-2) arriving on station in the North Arabian Sea, 12 January 1991, for Operation Desert Shield & Operation Desert Storm.
    DVIC photo # DN-SC-05-01655 from the collections of the Defense Visual Information Center.    		 Robert M. Cieri
    Vancouver 39k USS Vancouver (LPD-2) underway at Pearl Harbor, date unknown. Tommy Trampp
    Vancouver 1550k Port beam view of USS Vancouver (LPD-2) departing Pearl Harbor through the channel, 1 June 1991. She is enroute to her homeport of Naval Station San Diego following her deployment to the Persian Gulf for Operation Desert Shield/Storm.
    DVIC photo # DN-SC-92-03402 (1 June 1991) A US Navy Photo by OS2 John Bouvia, now in the collections of the Defense Visual Information Center.    		 Robert M. Cieri
    Vancouver 2874k Officers and enlisted men stand beneath the colors at the stern of USS Vancouver (LPD-2) upon her return to Naval Station San Diego, her homeport, following a deployment to the Persian Gulf region for Operation Desert Shield/Storm. Vancouver also took part in Operation Sea Angel, which provided aid to cyclone victims in Bangladesh.
    DVIC photo # DN-ST-91-12026 (30 June 1991) A US Navy Photo by PHC Bix Wallace, now in the collections of the Defense Visual Information Center.    		 Robert M. Cieri
    Vancouver 1241k Summer Dress Whites was the uniform-of-the-day as sailors stand in formation on the flight deck of USS Vancouver (LPD-2) during the ship's decommissioning ceremony, 27 March 1992, at Naval Station San Diego.
    DVIC photo # DN-ST-97-00546 a US Navy photo by PHCS Brown now in the collections of the Defense Visual Information Center.    		 Robert M. Cieri
    St Louis/Vancouver 1241k Ex-USS Vancouver (LPD-2) and St. Louis (LKA-116) laid up at the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility (NISMF, Middle Loch, Pearl Harbor HI., circa 2000. Photo by Jim Bedient
    MARAD National Defense Reserve Fleet
    St Louis/Vancouver 68k Ex-USS Vancouver (LPD-2) laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia, CA., circa October 2006. Bob Thomaston
    Vancouver 262k Ex-USS Vancouver (LPD-2) laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia, CA., date unknown.
    US Maritime Administration photo.    		 Ron Reeves
    Vancouver 190k
    Vancouver 198k Ex-USS Vancouver (LPD-2) in dry dock at Mare Island for cleaning prior to being towed to Brownsville for scrapping, 23 February 2013. Chris Rasmussen
    Vancouver 232k
    Vancouver 209k
    Vancouver 47k Ex-USS Vancouver (LPD-2) resting at Gamboa moorings at the Panama Canal while enroute to Brownsville, TX. for scrapping, 10 April 2013 CAPT. Andrew Efthimiadis
    Vancouver 43k
    USS Vancouver (LPD-2) Memorabilia
    Vancouver
    Welcome Aboard pamphlet - 1971
    Contributed by Robert M. Cieri Vancouver
    Welcome Aboard pamphlet - 1973
    Contributed by Robert M. Cieri Vancouver
    USS Vancouver (LPD-2) pin.
    Contributed by Robert M. Cieri

    For more photos and information about USS Vancouver, see;
  • Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)
  • National Register Eligibility Assessment
    Commanding Officers
    01 CAPT. Harbert Jr., Thomas Crockett, USN (USNA 1942) 11 May 1963 - 17 July 1964
    02 CAPT. Stock, George C. 17 July 1964 - 15 July 1965
    03 CAPT. Aubrey Jr., Norbert Eugene 15 July 1965 - 9 December 1965
    04 CAPT. Cruse, Carl Mann 9 December 1965 - 21 December 1967
    05 CAPT. LaCava Jr., John 21 December 1967 - 1 June 1969
    06 CAPT. Brown, Edward James 1 June 1969 - 12 August 1970
    07 CAPT. Gammon, James Montgomery, USN (USNA 1948-A) 12 August 1970 - 6 August 1971
    08 CAPT. Hodder Jr., Arthur James, USN (USNA 1948-A) 6 August 1971 - 11 May 1973
    09 CAPT. Moore, Charles Julian :RADM 11 May 1973 - 8 November 1974
    10 CAPT. Suzan, Frank M. 8 November 1974 - 7 February 1976
    11 CAPT. Ramsey, David George :RADM 7 February 1976 - 4 August 1977
    12 CAPT. Hayes, James Clero 4 August 1977 - 9 August 1979
    13 CAPT. Zaludek, George M. (Zeke) 9 August 1979 - 11 February 1980
    14 CAPT. Gamboa, John Frank, USN 11 February 1980 - 10 October 1982
    15 CAPT. Pellerin III, Alfred E. 10 October 1982 - 4 May 1984
    16 CAPT. Penny, Lawrence Allen, USN 4 May 1984 - 12 June 1986
    17 CAPT. Allen Jr., Lloyd Edward :RADM 12 June 1986 - 19 February 1988
    18 CAPT. Snodgrass, Donald James 19 February 1988 - 4 May 1988
    19 CAPT. Levien, Henry Allen 4 May 1988 - 4 May 1990
    20 CAPT. Burck, Clarence William 4 May 1990 - 27 March 1992
    Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
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