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 USS
Charleston
(LKA-113) in 1987
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| History
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 United States
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| Name
| USS
Charleston
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| Namesake
| Charleston, South Carolina
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| Ordered
| 11 June 1965
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| Builder
| Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co.
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| Laid down
| 5 December 1966
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| Launched
| 2 December 1967
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| Commissioned
| 14 December 1968
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| Decommissioned
| 27 April 1992
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| Stricken
| 31 August 2015
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| Homeport
| Norfolk, VA
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| Nickname(s)
| "Chuckie" or "The Chuck"
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| Fate
| Awaiting disposal by scrapping
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| General characteristics
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| Class and type
| Charleston
-class
amphibious cargo ship
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| Displacement
| 18,465 tons (full load)
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| Length
| 576 ft (176 m)
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| Beam
| 82 ft (25 m)
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| Draft
| 26 ft (7.9 m)
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| Propulsion
| Steam Turbine
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Boats & landing
craft carried
| LCM, LCVP, motor whale boat
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| Complement
| 50 officers, 592 men
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| Armament
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| Service record
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| Operations:
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Vietnam War
,
Desert Storm
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USS
Charleston
(AKA-113/LKA-113)
was an
amphibious cargo ship
, and was the
lead ship
of
her class
in the
United States Navy
. She was the fifth ship to be named Charleston for
Charleston, South Carolina
. She served as a commissioned ship for 23 years and 4 months.
She was laid down as AKA-113 at
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co.
,
Newport News, Virginia
, and was launched on 2 December 1967. She was
commissioned
on 14 December 1968, and was redesignated as LKA-113 on 1 January 1969.
Charleston
was involved in the
Vietnam War
, and earned eight awards and campaign ribbons for her service.
Decommissioned 1992, she was mothballed at
Portsmouth, Virginia
. She is berthed at the
Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, awaiting disposal.
There is no
DANFS
entry for the ship.
In popular culture
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In the
Tom Clancy
novel
Red Storm Rising
, The
Charleston
is sunk by an
AS-4
missile launched by a
Badger bomber
while part of an amphibious group involved in the recovery of Iceland from a Soviet invasion.
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