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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 ...
USS Monticello (1859), was a wooden screw steamer launched in 1859, purchased in 1861, sold in 1865; foundered while in merchant service in 1872; 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
During World War II, she was acquired by the United States and was used as an American troopship—renamed USS Monticello (AP-61) in 1942. After the war, in 1947, she was returned to the Italian Line and renamed Conte Grande. After a two-year hiatus, in 1949, she resumed service to South America.
USS Ashland (LSD-1) USS Casa Grande (LSD-13) USS Thomaston (LSD-28) USS Anchorage (LSD-36) USS Whidbey Island (LSD-41) USS Harper's Ferry (LSD-49) Further information: Dock landing ship The LSD came as a result of a British requirement during World War II for a vessel that could carry large landing craft across the seas at speed.
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 ...
Now part of the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument, the USS Arizona sank when Pearl Harbor was attacked on Dec. 7, 1941. ... Tour Thomas Jefferson's Monticello.
(United States Army In World War II – The Technical Services – The Transportation Corps: Movements, Training, And Supply, p.474.) The Paul P. Hastings tugboat (ex U.S. Army LT-814) in China Basin, San Francisco in 1982. At this time she was the last of the Santa Fe Railroad tugs still in service.
USS Agamemnon was decommissioned late in August and turned over to the War Department for use as a US Army Transport. She was laid up after the mid-1920s. In 1927 she was renamed Monticello, but saw no further service. She was considered too old for further use in World War II, and was sold for scrap in 1940.