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Blue Ridge (LCC 19) - Naval Cruise Book

 - Class of 1977

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SHIP ' S LOG U.S.S. BLUE RIDGE LCC-19 FO UR TH CR VISE SEPTEMBER 25, 1976 MARCH 8,1977

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BLUE RIDGE, HER HISTORY USS Blue Ridge is the first ship ever designed as a Command and Control ship. She is the third Navy ship of her name. The first Blue Ridge was a Great Lakes passenger steamer purchased for use as a Navy transport during World War I. The second was an amphibious flagship that saw extensive action in the Pacific during World War IL The idea for Blue Ridge was conceived in 1963, and was four years in the planning stage before construction began at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in 1967. On January 4th 1969, almost two years after her keel laying, she was launched. Over a year later, in mid February 1971 she was finished. Blue Ridge is a unique achievement in Naval design. Longer than two football fields (629 feet overall), she displaces 18,500 tons. She is 108 feet wide and settles some 27 feet in the water. To date Blue Ridge has made four deployments to the Western Pacific. While in a deployed status she serves as flagship for the Commander Amphibious Force, Seventh Fleet and for the Commanding General, 9th Marine Amphibious Brigade. During her third deployment Blue Ridge was called into action off the coast of Vietnam for Operation Frequent Wind. There she commanded the task force assigned to rescue American, foreign national and Vietnamese refugees from Saigon. In November 1976 she participated in Kangaroo II off the coast of Australia. The largest multi-national peacetime exercise of its kind.

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