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USS Austin (LPD-4)

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Secretary of the Navy Letter of Commendation (2)
Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Joint Meritorious Unit Award - Navy Unit Commendation
Second Row - Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation - Navy Battle "E" Ribbon (5) - Navy Expeditionary Service Medal (1-Lebanon)
Third Row - National Defense Service Medal - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (2-Dominican Republic, 3-Lebanon, 1-Op. Restore Hope, Somalia) - Armed Forces Service Medal (4)
Austin Class Amphibious Transport Dock:
  • Laid down, 4 February 1963, at New York Naval Shipyard, Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Launched, 26 June 1964
  • Commissioned USS Austin (LPD-4), 6 February 1965, CAPT. William H. Shaw in command
  • Austin was the lead ship of her class and varies from the rest in that she has no hanger. The Austin class LPDs are based on the design of the earlier Raleigh class LPDs
  • While in commission USS Austin was assigned to COMPHIBGRU2, COMNAVSURFLANT, homeported at NAB Little Creek, VA.
  • Decommissioning date, 1000, 27 September 2006, at Pier 1 Naval Station Norfolk, VA.
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 27 September 2006
  • Final Disposition, scrapping contract awarded, 22 May 2009, to International Shipbreaking, Ltd, Brownsville TX.
    Specifications:
    Displacement 9,201 t.(lt), 16,914 t.(fl)
    Length 589'
    Beam 105'
    Draft 23 ft.
    Speed 21 kts.
    Complement 24 Officers, 396 Enlisted
    Troop Accommodations 900
    Armament
    two 25 mm MK38 guns
    two Phalanx CIWS
    eight .50 cal. machine guns
    Aircraft up to 6 CH-46 Sea Knight Helicopters
    Propulsion 2 Boilers, 2 Steam Turbines, 2 Shafts, 24,000 Shaft Horsepower
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    Austin 46k USS Austin (LPD-4) underway in 1967, location unknown. .
    Austin 113k USS Austin (LPD-4) underway, date and location unknown. .
    Austin 83k USS Austin (LPD-4) underway, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo    		 CDR. Louis D. Chirillo USN Ret
    Austin 42k USS Austin (LPD-4) underway, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo    		 Joe Franklin SKCS(SW) USN
    Austin 60k USS Austin (LPD-4) moored pierside, San Juan Puerto Rico, early 1967 Photo by Steve Connelly USS Austin plank owner
    Austin 71k USS Austin (LPD-4) and USS Lindenwald (LSD-6) moored pierside, San Juan Puerto Rico, early 1967 Photo by Steve Connelly USS Austin plank owner
    Austin 67k USS Austin (LPD-4) at anchor in 1967, location unknown. Photo by Steve Connelly USS Austin plank owner
    Austin 89k USS Austin (LPD-4) in 1967 during an underway refueling from USS Waccamaw (AO-109), location unknown. Bill Guhl USS Waccamaw
    Austin/Trenton 75k USS Austin (LPD-4) and USS Trenton (LPD-14) at Norfolk, VA., circa 1980s. Edward Cleary
    Austin/Trenton 73k USS Austin (LPD-4) underway, date and location unknown. Richard Leonhardt
    Austin 81k USS Austin (LPD-4) returns to Norfolk Naval Station after a regularly scheduled six month deployment with the USS Enterprise Carrier Battle group, 20 December 1996. Note USNS San Diego (T-AFS-6) moored to the pier at left.
    US Navy photo # 961221-N-1055H-015 by PH1 Alexander C. Hicks Jr.    		 Bill Gonyo
    Austin 147k USS Austin (LPD-4) on-station at the crash site of EgyptAir Flight 990, November 1999. Austin served as the command and control ship for the Navy's search and recovery mission.
    US Navy photo # 991110-N-1110A-503 by PH1 Tina M. Ackerman    		 Bill Gonyo
    Austin 123k USS Austin (LPD-4) is gently maneuvered into a pier at Naval Station Guantanemo Bay, Cuba, 9 May 2005 by Santaquin (YTB-824). Austin was attached to Nassau Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG), which was operating in the U.S. Southern Command area of responsibility in support of exercise New Horizons in Haiti. Nassau ESG was being called upon to support the recovery of forces and equipment as the New Horizons’ project closed.
    US Navy photo # 050510-N-2903M-001 by PH1 Terry Matlock, Navy Newsstand    		 Bill Gonyo
    Austin 191k Ex-USS Austin (LPD-4) laid up at the Philadelphia Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility (NISMF), 29 October 2007. Photo by ©Marc Piché Vercheres, Quebec, Canada. TJ Tropea, Courtesy Marc Piché
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    Austin/Trenton
    Contributed by Mike Smolinski    		 Austin/Trenton
    Contributed by Frank M. Egger    		 Austin/Trenton
    Contributed by Mike Smolinski
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