LPH-10 USS Tripoli

Highlights of Ship's Service History

Contract awarded to Ingalls Shipbuilding, Mississippi
Keel laid
Launched
Commissioned
Decommissioned
Stricken from the Navy List
Loaned to the United States Army for use as a missile/anti-missile test platform. Maintaining the hull and towing it to a test site when needed provides an economy and flexibility that building, staffing and maintaining a fixed land base would lack.

Sources
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships - U. S. Naval Historical Center United States Naval Vessel Register Wikipedia NavSource: Photographic History of the U.S. Navy Haze Gray & Underway

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