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For other ships with the same name, see USS Coronado.
USS Coronado (AGF-11) (originally LPD-11) was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named after the city of the same name in the U.S. state of California. She was designed as an Austin-class amphibious transport dock (LPD), one of seven fitted with an additional superstructure level for command ship duties. The ship was launched on 1 July 1966, commissioned 23 May 1970, and became the most advanced command ship in the world. The ship was the first combatant ship in the United States Navy to integrate women as full-time crew members.[3]
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USS Coronado in 1998 | |
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Name | Coronado |
Namesake | City of Coronado, California |
Ordered | 15 May 1964 |
Builder | Lockheed Shipbuilding |
Laid down | 3 May 1965 |
Launched | 30 July 1966 |
Commissioned | 23 May 1970 |
Decommissioned | 30 September 2006 |
Reclassified | AGF |
Refit | 1980 (Conversion from LPD to AGF) |
Homeport | NAVSTA San Diego, California, U.S. |
Motto | Semper Ductor (Always a Leader) |
Nickname(s) | "Building 11" |
Fate | Sunk as part of live-fire exercise Valiant Shield 2012.[1][2] |
Status | 3,045 fathoms (5,569 m) deep at 11°32′6″N 144°31′52″E[citation needed] |
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Class and type | Austin-class amphibious transport dock |
Displacement | 16,405 tons full, 10,878 tons light, 5,527 tons dead |
Length | 173.4 m (569 ft) overall, 167 m (548 ft) waterline |
Beam | 32.9 m (108 ft) extreme, 25.6 m (84 ft) waterline |
Draught | 6.7 m (22 ft) maximum, 7 m (23 ft) limit |
Propulsion | steam |
Speed | 21 knots |
Complement | 106 officers, 1247 enlisted |
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Coronado was decommissioned on 30 September 2006, was used for target practice during Valiant Shield 2012 exercises, and was sunk in the Marianas Island Range Complex on 12 September 2012.[4]