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USS New Orleans (LPH-11)
International Radio Call Sign:
November - Alpha - Oscar - November
 NAON
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 (5) - Southwest Asia Service Medal - Philippine Presidential Unit Citation
Fourth Row - Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross Unit Citation - Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal - 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, CAPT. G. M. Even in command
  • During the Vietnam War USS participated in the following campaigns:
    Vietnam War Campaigns
    Campaigns and Dates Campaigns and Dates
    Vietnam Summer-Fall 1969
    26 to 28 August 1969
    9 September to 21 October 1969     		Consolidation I
    16 July 1971
    Vietnam Winter-Spring 1970
    15 to 25 November 1969
    7 to 16 and 30 December 1969
    1 to 9 January 1970
    2 to 12 February 1970
    10 to 13 March 1970     		Vietnam Ceasefire
    23 August to 7 October 1972
    23 October to 12 November 1972
    14 to 21 December 1972
    1 to 22 and 27 to 28 January 1973
    22 February to 28 March 1973
    Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase VII
    20 to 21 May 1971
    25 June 1971     		.

  • 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 from 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.
  • USS New Orleans earned five campaign stars for Vietnam War service
    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 USS New Orleans (LPH-11) underway, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo    		 .
    New Orleans 75k USS New Orleans (LPH-11) underway, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo    		 .
    New Orleans 42k USS New Orleans (LPH-11) out bound to sea from San Diego, CA.
    USS McKee (AS-41) is moored at Point Loma in background.
    US Navy photo    		 .
    New Orleans 38k USS New Orleans (LPH-11) at San Diego, date unknown. Dale C. Haskin
    New Orleans 110k Overhead view of USS New Orleans (LPH-11) at anchor in Haiphong harbor, during Operation End Sweep, 28 March 1973.
    US Navy photo    		 Robert M. Cieri
    New Orleans 184k USS New Orleans (LPH-11) moored at Bravo pier Pearl Harbor in July 1975 Photo by Kevin Hopper USS New Orleans
    New Orleans 172k USS New Orleans (LPH-11) lowering Apollo capsule from the American-Soviet Apollo-Soyuz mission of 5 July 1975 to the dock at Pearl Harbor in July 1975 Photo by Kevin Hopper USS New Orleans
    New Orleans 132k USS New Orleans (LPH-11) underway, date and location unknown. Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret.
    Okinawa 74k Ex-USS New Orleans (LPH-11) outboard of ex-USS Okinawa (LPH-3) moored together at the end of a multi-ship row at Suisun Bay. Photo by Carolyn Bonner. Photo from "Warship Boneyards" by Kit and Carolyn Bonner. Robert Hurst
    New Orleans 62k Ex-USS New Orleans (LPH-11) outward bound through San Francisco Bay while under tow by USNS Navajo (T-ATF-169), 19 October 2006. Captain Jack C. Goldthorpe, US Coast Guard Ret.
    USS New Orleans (LPH-11) Memorabilia
    New Orleans
    Commissioning Program
    Contributed by
    Robert M. Cieri    		 New Orleans
    1983
    Welcome Aboard
    Contributed by
    Robert M. Cieri

    For more photos and information about USS New Orleans, see;
  • Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
  • Commanding Officers
    • Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
    Fleet Reserve Association
    Additional Resources and Sites of Interest
    USS New Orleans (LPH-11)
    USS Iwo Jima Class Association
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