USS Dubuque (LPD-8)
47°33′10″N 122°39′09″W / 47.5527306°N 122.6523807°W
Dubuque in 2003 | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name | Dubuque |
| Namesake | the city of Dubuque, Iowa |
| Ordered | 25 January 1963 |
| Builder | Ingalls Shipbuilding |
| Laid down | 25 January 1965 |
| Launched | 6 August 1966 |
| Commissioned | 1 September 1967 |
| Decommissioned | 30 June 2011 |
| Stricken | 13 November 2017 |
| Identification | Hull number: LPD-8 |
| Motto | Our Country: Heritage, and Future |
| Nickname(s) | The Mighty 8 |
| Honors & awards | |
| Fate | Sunk as target, 11 July 2024 |
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| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Austin-class amphibious transport dock |
| Displacement | |
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| Beam |
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| Draft | 23 ft (7.0 m) maximum |
| Decks | well deck 7,000 sq ft (650 m2) |
| Ramps | 2 |
| Installed power | 24,000 per shaft (2 shafts) |
| Propulsion | Two 600 psi (4,100 kPa) Foster-Wheeler boilers, two Delaval steam turbines, two shafts |
| Speed | 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph) |
| Boats & landing craft carried | 2 RHIB |
| Capacity | cargo capacity 2,500 tons |
| Complement | 24 officers, 396 enlisted, 840 marine troops, 90 flag/staff personnel |
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| Aircraft carried | Two CH-46/CH-53 equivalents, or four UH-1/AH-1 equivalents, or two AV-8B Harriers |
| Aviation facilities | 1 hangar |
USS Dubuque (LPD-8) was an Austin-class amphibious transport dock of the United States Navy.
USS Dubuque was the second ship named after Dubuque, Iowa on the Mississippi River and her founder, Julien Dubuque - a French Canadian explorer. USS Dubuque was commissioned on 1 September 1967 at Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia.