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NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive

Contributed by Mike Smolinski

LPD-8 Dubuque

Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign: November - Delta - Bravo - Quebec

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation (2)
Second Row - Navy Battle "E" Ribbon - National Defense Service Medal (2) - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (1-Operation Eagle Pull, 2-Persian Gulf)
Third Row - Vietnam Service Medal (8) - Southwest Asia Service Medal - Humanitarian Service Medal (1-Op. Eagle Pull, 1-Op. Frequent Wind, 2-Entewatok Cleanup)
Fourth Row - Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross Unit Citation (6) - Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal - Kuwait Liberation Medal (Kuwait)

Cleveland Class Amphibious Transport Dock:

Laid down, 25 January 1965, at Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, MS.

Launched, 6 August 1966

Commissioned USS Dubuque (LPD-8) in September 1967

During the Vietnam War Dubuque (LPD-8) participated in the following campaigns:

**Vietnam War Campaigns**
Campaign and Dates	Campaign and Dates
Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase IV 31 May to 30 June 1968	Vietnam Winter-Spring 1970 1, 4 to 11 and 21 to 26 November 1969 2 to 15 and 25 December 1969 1 to 3, and 8 to 11 January 1970 3 to 13 and 23 to 26 February 1970 14 to 16 March 1970 20 to 22 April 1971
Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase V 1 to 10 July 1968 21 July to 3 September 1968 19 to 21 September 1968 28 September to 1 November 1968	Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase VII 3 to 6, 12 to 13 and 20 to 22 May 1971 31 May to 1 June 1971 14 to 16 and 25 to 29 June1971
Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase VI 2 to 15 November 1968	Consolidation I 7 to 9 July 1971 11 to 12 and 21 September 1971
Vietnam Summer-Fall 1969 18 to 24 and 29 to 31 October 1969	Vietnam Ceasefire 13 to 20 December 1972 7 to 18 January 1973 23 to 28 February 1973

Dubuque is currently a unit of Naval Surfaces Forces Pacific, and is homeported at San Diego, CA.

Dubuque earned eight campaign stars for Vietnam War service

Specifications:
Displacement 9,734 t.(lt), 17,326 t.(fl)
Length 570'
Beam 100'
Draft 23 ft.
Speed 21 kts.
Complement 24 Officers, 400 Enlisted
Troop and Flag Accommodations 840 Troops, 90 Flag Staff
Boats Assault Craft, (well deck capacity) 1 LCU or 1 LCAC, or 2 LCM-8 or 4 LCM-6, (ships boats) 2 LCPL, 1 motor whaleboat
Armament two 25 mm MK38 chain guns, two Phalanx CIWS, eight 50 cal. machine guns Aircraft, two CH-46/CH-53 or four UH-1/AH-1, or two AV-8B Harriers
Propulsion 2 Foster-Wheeler boilers, 2 DeLaval steam turbines, 2 propellers, 24,000 Shaft Horsepower

Size	Image Description	Contributed By
131k	Dubuque (LPD-8) underway, date and place unknown. US Navy photo	Jerry Hays
42k	Dubuque (LPD-8) underway, date and place unknown. US Navy photo	.
77k	Dubuque (LPD-8) underway, date and place unknown. US Navy photo	.
126k	Dubuque (LPD-8) underway, date and place unknown.	Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret.
82k	Dubuque (LPD-8) underway, date and place unknown. US Navy photo	.
60k	Dubuque (LPD-8) at Hong Kong, 16 February 1992.	William Chiu
61k	Dubuque (LPD-8) pulls away after receiving supplies from John Erickson (T-AO-194) while deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, 16 December 2001. US Navy photo # 011216-N-8421M-036 by PH2 David C. Mercil, from the Navy Newsstand web site.	Bill Gonyo
68k	Dubuque (LPD-8) departing San Diego, heading to sea loaded with US Marines and AH-1W " Super Cobra" attack helicopters in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, 17 January 2003. US Navy photo # 1-030117-N-2069B-013 from the Navy Newsstand web site.	Bernard A. Cardali
82k	Dubuque (LPD-8) moored pierside, Naval Station San Diego, CA., 29 March 2004	Photo by Brian J Johnson
65k	Overhead view of Dubuque (LPD-8) underway, date and place unknown.	Robert Hurst
75k	Dubuque (LPD-8) underway in San Francisoci Bay, 8 October 2005, during the Parade of Ships, Fleet Week 2005	CAPT Jack C. Goldthorpe, USCG Ret.
79k	Dubuque (LPD 8) passes under the Coronado Bay Bridge as she returns home from a twice-extended deployment to the Western Pacific. The homecoming marks the end of a nearly nine-month deployment to conduct maritime operations in the Persian Gulf and transport the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit. US Navy photo # 070531-N-4658L-121 SAN DIEGO (May 31, 2007) by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Mark A. Leonesio.	Douglas Brown