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USS Guadalcanal (LPH-7)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Guadalcanal.
USS Guadalcanal (LPH-7), the third Iwo Jima-class amphibious assault ship (helicopter), was launched by the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard 16 March 1963, sponsored by Zola Shoup, wife of General Shoup, the former Commandant of the Marine Corps; and commissioned 20 July 1963. It was the second ship in the Navy to bear the name.
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Name | Guadalcanal |
Namesake | Battle of Guadalcanal |
Ordered | 21 December 1959 |
Builder | Philadelphia Naval Shipyard |
Laid down | 1 September 1961 |
Launched | 16 March 1963 |
Commissioned | 20 July 1963 |
Decommissioned | 31 August 1994 |
Stricken | 31 August 1994 |
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Motto | There When Needed |
Nickname(s) | The Golden Guad |
Fate | Sunk as target, 19 May 2005 |
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Class and type | Iwo Jima-class amphibious assault ship |
Displacement | 19,395 tons |
Length | 602.3 ft (183.6 m) |
Beam | 84 ft (26 m) |
Draught | 27 ft (8.2 m) |
Propulsion | 2 × 600 psi (4.1 MPa) boilers, one 22 ft (7 m) diameter screw, 23,000 shaft horse power |
Speed | 23 knots (26 mph; 43 km/h) |
Complement | 685 (47 officer, 638 enlisted) |
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