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USS Monticello (LSD-35) was a Thomaston-class dock landing ship, the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home in Virginia. Monticello was laid down on 6 June 1955 by Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp., Pascagoula, Mississippi ; launched on 10 August 1956; sponsored by Mrs. Harry R. Sheppard , wife of ...
The Thomaston class was the third class of U.S. Navy dock landing ships. The class was designed under project SCB 75 and approved in the early 1950s. Compared to the Ashland and Casa Grande-class dock landing ships of World War II, the ships of this class were about a third larger and five knots faster. [3]
USS Madera County; USS Magoffin; USS Mahnomen County; USS Manitowoc (LST-1180) USS Marion County; USS Mathews; USS Meeker County; USS Merrick; USS Mobile (LKA-115) USS Monmouth County; USS Monticello (LSD-35) USS Mount McKinley; USS Mount Vernon (LSD-39)
USS Monticello (LSD-35), Operation Dominic participant [14] Anchorage class The Anchorage class, designed under project SCB 404, was basically the Thomaston class with the well deck enlarged (49 feet longer and 2 feet wider) to accommodate the new larger LCU-1610 class.
USS Monticello (AP-61), was built in 1928 as SS Conte Grande purchased by the US Navy and commissioned, 1942; decommissioned, 1946; returned to Italy in 1947 USS Monticello (LSD-35) , was a Thomaston -class dock landing ship commissioned in 1957 and decommissioned in 1985
USS Maricopa County; USS Marquette; USS Mathews; USS Meeker County; USS Merrick; USS Middlesex County; USS Mineral County; USS Mobile (LKA-115) USS Monmouth County; USS Montague; USS Montgomery County; USS Monticello (LSD-35) USS Morgan County; USS Mount McKinley; Mount McKinley-class command ship; USS Mount Olympus; USS Mount Vernon (LSD-39 ...
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The Battle of Sewell's Point was an inconclusive exchange of cannon fire between the Union gunboat USS Monticello, supported by the USS Thomas Freeborn, and Confederate batteries on Sewell's Point that took place on May 18, 19 and 21, 1861, in Norfolk County, Virginia in the early days of the American Civil War. Little damage was done to either ...