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LPH-11 New Orleans
Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign:
November - Alpha - Oscar - November
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons




Secretary of the Navy Letter of Commendation
CINCPACFLT Letter of Commendation
Precedence of awards is from left to right
Top Row - Navy Battle "E" (6)
Second Row - Navy Expeditionary Medal (1-Iran/Indian Ocean) - National Defense Service Medal - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (1-Op. Sharpe Edge, Somalia)
Third Row - Vietnam Service Medal - Southwest Asia Service Medal - Philippine Presidential Unit Citation
Fourth Row - Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross Unit Citation - Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal (1) - Kuwait Liberation Medal (Kuwait)
Iwo Jima Class Amphibious Assault Ship (Helicopter):
  • Laid down, 1 March 1966, at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Philadelphia, PA.
  • Launched, 3 February 1968
  • Commissioned USS New Orleans (LPH-11), 16 November 1968, Captain G. M. Even in command
  • Decommissioned, 1 October 1997
  • Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia, CA.
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 23 October 1998
  • Current Disposition, removed form donation hold list in 2005, now slated for SINKEX, last reported sighting of ex-New Orleans was, 25 October 2006, as she was being towed into Middle Loch (Reserve/Mothball Fleet) at Pearl Harbor, HI.
    Specifications:
    Displacement 11,000 tons (lt.), 18,474 t.(fl)
    Length 592'
    Beam 84', Flight Deck 105'
    Draft 27'
    Speed 22 kts.
    Complement 667
    Troop Accommodations 2,157
    Aircraft 25 helicopters
    Armament
    (as built) single four 3"/50 dual purpose gun mounts
    (modifications) two 3"/50s dual purpose gun mounts removed
    two eight cell Sea Sparrow BPDMS launchers added, later replaced by two 25mm chain guns
    two Phalanx CIWSs added
    Propulsion two 600 psi boilers, one geared steam turbine, one shaft, 22,000 shaft horsepower     .
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    New Orleans 69k New Orleans (LPH-11) underway, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo    		 .
    New Orleans 75k New Orleans (LPH-11) underway, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo    		 .
    New Orleans 42k New Orleans (LPH-11) heading to sea from San Diego, CA.
    McKee (AS-41) is moored at Point Loma in background.
    US Navy photo    		 .
    New Orleans 38k New Orleans (LPH-11) at San Diego, date unknown. Dale C. Haskin
    New Orleans 110k Overhead view of New Orleans (LPH-11) at anchor in Haiphong harbor, during Operation End Sweep, 28 March 1973.
    US Navy photo    		 Robert M. Cieri
    New Orleans 132k New Orleans (LPH-11) underway, date and place unknown. Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret.
    New Orleans 62k Ex-New Orleans (LPH-11) outward bound through San Francisco Bay while under tow by Navajo (T-ATF-169), 19 October 2006. Captain Jack C. Goldthorpe, US Coast Guard Ret.
    New Orleans (LPH-11) Memorabilia
    New Orleans
    Commissioning Program
    Contributed by
    Robert M. Cieri    		 New Orleans
    1983
    Welcome Aboard
    Contributed by
    Robert M. Cieri
    View the New Orleans (LPH-11)
    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center web site
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
    Fleet Reserve Association
    Additional Resources and Sites of Interest
    USS New Orleans (LPH-11)
    USS New Orleans (LPH-11) - Home of the Enforcers
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    Last Updated 8 December 2006