History of the USS Alamo
Construction Facts
Name USS Alamo
Namesake - the Alamo
Awarded - 18 March 1954
Builder - Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi
Laid down - 11 October 1954
Launched - 20 January 1956
Commissioned - 24 August 1956
Decommissioned - 28 September 1990
Stricken - 24 January 2001
Fate - Loaned to Brazil, 12 November 1990
The information below was obtained from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Alamo
General Characteristics
- Class and type Thomaston-class dock landing ship
- Displacement 8,899 long tons (9,042 t) light
- 11,525 long tons (11,710 t) full load
- Length 510 ft (160 m)
- Beam 84 ft (26 m)
- Draft 19 ft (5.8 m)
- Propulsion 2 steam turbines, 2 shafts, 23,000 s hp (17 MW)
- Speed 21 knots (39 km/h)
- Boats & landing craft carried 21 × LCM-6 landing craft in well deck
- Troops 300
- Complement 304
- Armament 4 × twin 3"/50 caliber guns
- 6 × twin 20 mm AA guns
- Aircraft carried 8 helicopters
Brazil
Name Rio de Janeiro (G31)
Acquired 12 November 1990
Decommissioned 15 June 2012
Fate Scrapped in Alang India 2015
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