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USS Nashville (LPD-13)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Delta - Victor - Whiskey
 NDVW
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons




Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Joint Meritorious Unit Award
Second Row - Navy Unit Commendation - Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation (3) - Navy Battle "E" Ribbon (3)
Third Row - Navy Expeditionary Medal (1- Lebanon, 1-Iran/Indian Ocean) - National Defense Service Medal - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (1-Op. Sharpe Edge, Liberia, 1-Haiti, Op. Uphold Democracy)
Fourth Row - Southwest Asia Service Medal - Armed Forces Service Medal - Humanitarian Service Medal (1-Beirut Lebanon, Evacuation)
Cleveland Class Amphibious Transport Dock:
  • Laid down, 14 March 1966, at Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction, Seattle, WA.
  • Launched, 7 October 1967
  • Commissioned USS Nashville (LPD-13), 14 February 1970
  • Nashville is a unit of COMPHIBGRU2, COMNAVSURFLANT, and is home ported at NOB Norfolk, VA.

    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 Accommodations 840
    Flag Staff Accommodations 90
    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 25mm 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 Shafts, 24,000 Shaft Horsepower
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    Nashville 132k USS Nashville (LPD-13) alongside USS Concord (AFS-5) during an underway replenishment, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo    		 .
    Nashville 19k USS Nashville (LPD-13) underway, date and location unknown. Photo courtesy Peter Wilson
    Nashville 22k USS Nashville (LPD-13) moored pierside, date and location unknown. Photo courtesy Peter Wilson
    Nashville 185k USS Nashville (LPD-13) underway, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo    		 Photo courtesy Stephen Essex
    Nashville 172k USS Nashville (LPD-13) conducting amphibious operations, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo    		 .
    Spartanburg County 52k Port bow view of USS Spartanburg County (LST-1192), in company with USS Whidbey Island (LSD-41), background left, and USS Nashville (LPD-13), background, right, participating in "leapfrog" maneuvering drills while en route to NATO exercise Northern Wedding `86. North Atlantic Ocean, 1 August 1986, Photo by PHC Jeff Hilton USN.
    Department of Defense photo # DNSC8705004    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret
    Nashville 193k USSNashville (LPD-13 as PhibRon 4 (MARG 2-87) flagship with 26th MAU embarked off the coast of Spain, February 1987 Photo by Tom LaLumiere
    ex SGT USMC
    Nashville 140k USS Nashville (LPD-13) as PhibRon 4 (MARG 2-87) flagship 26th MAU embarked off coast of Tunisia, April 1987. Photo by Tom LaLumiere
    ex SGT USMC
    Nashville 69k USS Nashville (LPD-13) off Castellamare, Sardinia, during Exercise Sardinia-87, March 1987 Photo by Ignacio Lopez ex member Armada Espanola
    Nashville 60k USS Nashville (LPD-13) off Castellamare, Sardinia, during Exercise Sardinia-87, March 1987. Photo by Ignacio Lopez ex member Armada Espanola
    Nashville 106k USS Nashville (LPD-13), moored in port, Rijeka, Croatia. as part of the Nassau (LHA 4) Amphibious Readiness Group, 16 April 2001. Photo by Frank Egger - Lienz/Austria
    Nashville 49k USS Nashville (LPD-13), Mk.33 twin 3"/50 open gun mount. The "dish" antenna serves its target acquisition/tracking radar. Photo by Stephen Essex
    Nashville 119k USS Nashville (LPD-13) is seen from the deck of USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7), anchored just off the coastline of Beirut, Lebanon, 21 July 2006. USS Nashville and other ships of the Iwo Jima Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG) are currently assisting in the departure of U.S. citizens from Lebanon.
    US Navy Photo # 060721-N-6214F-011 by MC1 Robert J. Fluegel.    		 Lee Wahler
    Nashville 542k USS Nashville (LPD-13) has her stern gate open to allow Sailors to do some recreational fishing while the ship is in transit in the Mediterranean Sea, 16 March 2008.. Nashville is deployed with the Nassau Expeditionary Strike Group supporting maritime security and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. Navy 6th Fleet area of responsibility.
    US Navy Photo # 080316-N-2735T-128 MEDITERRANEAN SEA (March 16, 2008) by MC3 Coleman Thompson    		 Lee Wahler
    Nassau 414k USS Nassau (LHA-4), USS Nashville (LPD-13) and the Military Sealift Command fleet replenishment oiler USNS Patuxent (T-AO-201) steam in formation during a transit through the Mediterranean Sea during Phoenix Express (PE 08). PE-08 is the third annual exercise in a long-term effort to improve regional cooperation and maritime security. The principal aim is to increase interoperability by developing individual and collective maritime proficiencies of participating nations as well as promoting friendship, mutual understanding and cooperation.
    US Navy photo # 080416-N-9855D-158 MEDITERRANEAN SEA (April 16, 2008) by MC1 James C. Davis    		 Robert M. Cieri

    USS Nashville Flight Operations during 1975-76 Med Cruise
    Photos by Stephen Essex
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