We Deliver

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

 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