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LST-1197 Barnstable County

Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign:
November - Uniform - Charlie - Uniform

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Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons



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 (4) - Navy Battle "E" Ribbon - Navy Expeditionary Medal (2-Iran & Liberia)
Third Row - National Defense Service Medal - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (Grenada, Lebanon, Somalia(2) - Humanitarian Services Medal (Beirut)

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USS Barnstable County (LST-1197) was sold to Spain and renamed Hernán Cortés (L 41)

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Struck from the US Naval Register, 23 July 2002

Barnstable County was the nineteenth ship of the twenty ship Newport tank landing ship class, which replaced the traditional bow door design LST. Two derrick arms support a thirty-ton, 112-foot bow ramp for the unloading of tanks and other vehicles ashore, additionally, amphibious vehicles can be launched from the tank deck via the ship's stern gate and the ship's flight deck can accommodate most Navy helicopter types.

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Specifications:
Displacement 5,190 t.(lt), 8,550 t.(fl)
Length 522' 3" (ovl)
Beam 69' 9 1/2" (max)
Draft max forward (fl) 13' 6", max aft (fl) 16' 3" 15'
Speed 27 kts. max.
Complement

14 Officers

15 CPO

226 Other Enlisted
Troop Accommodations

18 Officers

21 SNCO

268 Other Enlisted
Boats

three 36' LCVPs

one 36' LCPL
Aircraft

flight deck one spot
Armament

As Built

two twin 3"/50 DP gun mounts

Upgraded

two .25mm chain guns

six .50 cal machine guns

one 20mm Phalanx (CIWS)
Propulsion

six 16 cylinder ALCO 16-251E main propulsion diesel engines

two shafts, three engines per shaft, shaft horsepower 15,000

two controllable reversible pitch propellers, twin rudders

three ALCO 251-C, 8 cylinder generator sets, 750KW

one 800 hp variable thrust bowthruster

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Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description		Contributed By
USS Barnstable County (LST-1197)
	35k	Barnstable County (LST-1197), at Barcelona, Spain, 15 February 1979.		Photo by Fabio Peña
	108k	Barnstable County (LST-1197), date and place unknown.		© Richard Leonhardt
	53k	Barnstable County (LST-1197) at Nordbynes, Norway, as troops and vehicles disembark during the NATO exercise Cold Winter (Coldex-Flotex`81), 1 March 1981. Photo by JO1 Gary Miller USN Department of Defense photo # DNSN8201126		Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret
	64k	Barnstable County (LST-1197) at Barcelona, Spain, 27 December 1981. This photo shows close-up details of the derrick arms, bow doors and superstructure, with a passage to permit vehicles to shift between the forward (tank) and aft (helicopter) decks. Just visible inboard of Barnstable County is the bow of Raleigh (LPD-1).		Photo by Fabio Peña
	83k	Barnstable County (LST-1197) at Barcelona, Spain, 2 January 1982. View of the stern ramp which permitted unloading amphibious vehicles into the water while the ship was underway, "mated" to a landing craft, a causeway, or beached. The anchor helped to retract the ship off the beach. Raleigh (LPD 1) is alongside outboard.		Photo by Fabio Peña
	109k	Barnstable County (LST-1197) passes along the Strait of Magellan during Unitas XXXII, a combined exercise involving the naval forces of the United States and nine South American nations, 1 September 1991. DVIC photo # DN-ST-92-04006 by PH2 John Bivera, USN, from the collections of the Defense Visual Information Center		Bill Gonyo
	30k	A Marine looks out from the hatch of an AAVP-7A1 amphibious assault personnel vehicle as it returns to Barnstable County (LST-1197) during the ships 1991 West African Training Cruise, 1 November 1991. Photo by PH1(SW) Michael D.P. Flynn USN Department of Defense # DNST9205911		Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret
	96k	Marines assigned to Barnstable County (LST-1197) stand in formation on a pier in Libreville, the capital of Gabon, during the ship's 1991 West African Training Cruise, 19 November 1991. DVIC photo # DN-ST-92-05901 by PH1 Michael D. P. Flynn, USN, from the collections of the Defense Visual Information Center		Bill Gonyo
	21k	Barnstable County (LST-1197), underway, mid-Atlantic Ocean 1993.		A. Freudig
Hernán Cortés (L 41)
	54k	ex Barnstable County (LST-1197) in Spanish service as Hernán Cortés (L-41) moored pierside at San Fernando, Cádiz (Spain), 26 March 2000.		Photo by Daniel Ferro

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View the Barnstable County (LST-1197)
DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center

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Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

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United States LST Association

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