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USS Nassau (LHA-4)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Bravo - Xray - Romeo
 NBXR
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons



Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (2) - Navy Unit Commendation - Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation (3)
Second Row - Navy Battle "E" Ribbon (4) - National Defense Service Medal - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (3-Lebanon)
Third Row - Southwest Asia Service Medal - Armed Forces Service Medal (2) - Kuwait Liberation Medal (Kuwait)
Tarawa Class Amphibious Assault Ship (General Purpose):
  • Laid down, 13 August 1973, at Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp., Pascagoula, MS.
  • Launched, 21 January 1978
  • Commissioned USS Nassau (LHA-4), 28 July 1979
  • USS Nassau is a unit of the amphibious force of COMNAVSURFLANT.
    Specifications:
    Displacement 38,900 t.(fl.)
    Length 820'
    Beam 106'
    Draft 26'
    Speed 24 kts.
    Complement 82 Officer, 882 Enlisted
    Troop Capacity 1900 plus
    Armament
    two RAM launchers
    two 5"/54 gun mounts
    two 20mm Phalanx (CIWS)
    six 25mm chain guns
    Aircraft 28 amphibious transport helicopters
    Propulsion two 600 psi boilers, two geared steam turbines, two shafts, 70,000 total shaft horsepower
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    Nassau 51k USS Nassau (LHA-4) underway in the Mediterranean Sea. Photo by Mario Mederos, crew chief Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron (HMM-263) was taken during the Blue Eagles cruise to the Mediterranean in 1983. Pete Harlem
    Nassau 49k USS Nassau (LHA-4) moored pierside at NOB Norfolk, VA., August 1985. Rick Rowan
    Nassau 17k USS Nassau (LHA-4) underway, date and place unknown. .
    Nassau 63k USS Nassau (LHA-4) underway during Operation "Desert Storm" in the early 1990s, location unknown. Robert Hurst
    Nassau 41k USS Nassau (LHA-4) underway, date and location unknown. Robert Hurst
    Nassau 29k USS Nassau (LHA-4)underway, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo    		 .
    Nassau 43k USS Nassau (LHA-4), preparing to moor at Norfolk Naval Station, summer 1992. Photo by Adam Robison
    Nassau 26k USS Nassau (LHA-4) at anchor, circa 1999, location unknown.
    US Navy photo.    		 .
    Nassau 71k USS Nassau (LHA-4), flight deck view, in port, Rijeka, Croatia, 16 April 2001. Photo by Frank Egger - Lienz/Austria
    Nassau 130k USS Nassau (LHA-4) starboard view, moored, in port, Rijeka, Croatia, 16 April 2001. Photo by Frank Egger - Lienz/Austria
    Nassau 179k USS Nassau (LHA-4) underway, June 2001, location unknown.
    US Navy photo.    		 Robert M. Cieri
    Nassau 41k USS Nassau (LHA-4) moored pierside, Naval Station Rota Spain, date unknown. Photo by Manolo Budiņo
    Nassau 53k USS Nassau (LHA-4) pierside, Naval Station Rota Spain, date unknown. Photo by Manolo Budiņo
    Nassau 84k USS Nassau (LHA-4) underway, date and location unknown. Richard Leonhardt
    Nassau 73k USS Nassau (LHA-4) underway, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo.    		 Wendell McLaughlin
    Nassau 57k USS Nassau (LHA-4) underway in Hampton Roads, February 2005. Danny Lewis
    Nassau 73k USS Nassau (LHA-4), the guided missile frigate USS Carr (FFG 52) (bottom left), and the guided missile destroyer USS Stout (DDG 55) rest in their homeport of Naval Station Norfolk, 30 May 2003. The Nassau Amphibious Ready Group recently returned from deployment in support of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.
    U.S. Navy photo # 030530-N-6567S-001 JOC Gerard Sekerak.    		 Navy News Stand
    Nassau 71k USS Nassau (LHA-4) underway off Norfolk, VA., 23 March 2005. An MV-22 Osprey, assigned to the "Argonauts" of Marine Tiltrotor Operational Test and Evaluation Squadron Two Two (VMX-22), prepares to land on the flight deck Nassau.
    US Navy photo # 050323-N-7945K-116 by PH3 Andrew King    		 Navy News Stand
    Nassau 47k USS Nassau (LHA-4) returning to her homeport of Norfolk, VA. from a deployment, 4 May 2006 Joseph A. Gless SK1(SW), USS Nassau
    Nassau 54k USS Nassau (LHA-4) returning to her homeport of Norfolk, VA. from a deployment, 4 May 2006 Joseph A. Gless SK1(SW), USS Nassau
    Nassau 407k The "Don't Tread on Me" jack waves from the forecastle of the frigate USS John L. Hall (FFG-32) as the amphibious assault ship USS Nassau (LHA-4) pulls into Souda Bay. Both ships are participating in Phoenix Express 2008 (PE 08), the third in a series of annual exercises to improve regional cooperation and maritime security by increasing interoperability by developing individual and collective maritime proficiencies of the participating nations, as well as promoting friendship, mutual understanding and cooperation.
    US Navy photo # 080408-N-2735T-030 SOUDA BAY, Crete (Apr. 8, 2008) by MC3 Coleman Thompson    		 Lee Wahler
    USS Nassau (LHA-4) Memorabilia
    Nassau

    1983
    Welcome Aboard
    Contributed by Robert M. Cieri    		 Nassau

    1990
    Welcome Aboard
    Contributed by Robert M. Cieri    		 Nassau

    2001
    PAO Information
    Contributed by Robert M. Cieri    		 Nassau

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    Contributed by Robert M. Cieri
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