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USS MOUNT VERNON LSD - 39 USS MOUNT VERNON (LSD-39) is the fifth ship commissioned in the United States Navy to bear the proud name. Buih by the Quincy Shipbuilding Division, General Dynamics Corporation, at Quincy, Massachusetts, its keel was laid on 29 January 1970. Sixteen months later, on April 1971, MOUNT VERNON was launched, designated homeport of San Diego, California. The fourth in a series of five USS ANCHORAGE class dock landing ships, USS MOUNT VERNON is 562 feet in length. Its beam width is 84 feet at the widest point. Fully loaded, the ship displaces 13,700 with a mean draft of 19 feet as measured from keel to waterline. The ship ' s main armament consists of three 3 50 single purpose twin gun mounts. Installed electronic equipment includes air and surface surveillance radars, a navigational radar and sufficient communications equipment to support the ship ' s amphibious mission. MOUNT VERNON ' s helicopter landing platform can be used in support of helicopted assault and logistics operations. Refueling, limited repairs and minor maintenance of aircraft can also be provided. The ship is designed to transport, and operate, heavy landing craft from her well deck. Wet-well evolutions are facilitated through the use of a complex, electro-hydraulically controlled ballasting and deballisting system. The ship ' s habitability features amply provide for the messing and berthing of 18 officers and 335 enlisted personnel normally assigned. They further provide for the berthing, feeding and cargo transport of approxi- mately 300 fully equipped combat troops of the landing force. Since reporting for duty with the Pacific Fleet, MOUNT VERNON has completed seven operation- al deployments with the Seventh Fl eet in the Far East. In each of the seven periods of deployed service, the ship acquitted itself with distinction. Symbolic of that dedicated performance of duty, MOUNT VERNON has been awarded the Navy Unit Commendations, the National Defense Service Award, the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal and the Humanitarian Service Medal.
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USS MOUNT VERNON LSD-39 is the fifth U.S. Navy ship to bear the proud name of MOUNT VERNON. Her four predecessors all served with distinction in times of conflict, dating back to the Civil War. The first MOUNT VERNON was a wooden screw merchant steamer built in 1859. She was purchased by the Navy Department in 1861 and fitted out as a gunboat. In just over two years of blockade duty, MOUNT VERNON captured or ran aground more than a dozen Confederate and British vessels. Among her memorable exploits s was participation in the attacks on the Confederate stronghold of Fort Fisher near Wilmington, North Carolina. The fall of this fort in January of 1865 hastened the end of the Civil War, as this was the last Confederate port by which supplies from Europe could reach General Lee ' s troops at Richmond. The second MOUNT VERNON was also in the Civil War. She was a side-wheel river steamer fitted out as a gunboat for defense of Washington, D.C., and served in the Potomac Flotilla of Commander James H. Ward, the first naval officer to lose his life in the Civil War. In November, 1861, the name of this ship was changed to MOUNT WASHINGTON to avoid confusion with the first MOUNT VERNON. The third MOUNT VERNON was originally named the CROWN PRINCESS CECILIE built in 1907 in Germany for the North German Lloyd Lines, she was the pride of luxury liners of her time. She departed New York July 28, 1914, with a full passenger list and gold bullion for the English and French banks. The next week was full of drama, commencing with wireless orders from Bremen for the liner to reverse course and seek a neutral United States port. Under cover of daytime fog, the liner repainted funnels to resemble the colors of a White Star Liner. She was completely concealed by the night as all portholes were covered and no light on board was visible. She made top speed through fog and darkness to elude four British cruisers sent to intercept her. On August 4, CROWN PRINCESS
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