Durham (LKA 114) - Naval Cruise Book

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MAU Service Support Group THIRTEEN Commanding Officer LTCOL J.P. Leonard III Executive Officer MAJ H.L. Inabinet

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Executive Officer Commander David W. Hagstrom, U.S. Navy Commander Hagstrom reported to the Durham in Sep- tember 1984. Previous tours included ASW Officer on USS Fanning (FF 1076), Battery Control Officer onboard USS Bainbridge (CGN 25), Chief Engineo onboard USS St. Louis (LKA 116) and COMNAVSURFPAC Force Planning Office

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USS DURHAM (LKA 1 14) The USS Durham is an Amphibious Cargo Ship (LKA), designed to carry the necessary material and equipment to support a waterbome attack upon defended or undefended enemy soil, as well as being capable of providing a miner advance base support role to boats and or helicopters in remote inaccessible areas already secured, or in countries requiring emergency search and rescue operations assistance To accomplish her mission, Durham has the most modem equipment available. Many new developments and concepts have been designed into her Deck and Engineering Depart- ments that allow the ship to perform her missions more effi- ciently. For example, ha- expansive cargo holds have hydrau- lic hatch cova-s that open automatically in a matter of a few minutes. Using a system of eight fifteen-ton booms, two forty- ton booms, and two seventy-ton booms, all four hatches can be loaded or unloaded simultaneously, and this can be done with about one half to one third of the personnel required on older cargo ships. In addition, there is a completely auto- mated engineroom which can be operated by four men at one control console. Commissioned 24 May 1969, USS Durham took her place in America ' s fighting force in the Pacific on 19 August 1969. Since that time she has completed seven deployments to the U.S. Seventh Fleet in the Western Pacific Ocean. USS Durham is assigned to Amphibious Squadron FIVE and is homeported in San Diego, California