USS Guadalcanal (LPH-7)

	USS Guadalcanal in New York in 1992
History
United States
Name	Guadalcanal
Namesake	Battle of Guadalcanal
Ordered	21 December 1959
Builder	Philadelphia Naval Shipyard
Laid down	1 September 1961
Launched	16 March 1963
Commissioned	20 July 1963
Decommissioned	31 August 1994
Stricken	31 August 1994
Identification	Callsign: NIEG; ; Hull number: LPH-7;
Motto	There When Needed
Nickname(s)	The Golden Guad
Fate	Sunk as target, 19 May 2005
General characteristics
Class & type	Iwo Jima-class amphibious assault ship
Displacement	19,395 tons
Length	602.3 ft (183.6 m)
Beam	84 ft (26 m)
Draught	27 ft (8.2 m)
Propulsion	2 × 600 psi (4.1 MPa) boilers, one 22 ft (7 m) diameter screw, 23,000 shaft horse power
Speed	23 knots (26 mph; 43 km/h)
Complement	685 (47 officer, 638 enlisted)
Armament	Initially:; 2 × 2 3-inch (76 mm) / 50 caliber DP guns,; 8 cell Sea Sparrow BPDMS launchers,; Later:; 2 × Phalanx CIWS;
Aircraft carried	11 - CH-53 Sea Stallions; 20 - CH-46 Sea Knights; (representative, actual complement was mixed, including UH-1s and AH-1W Super Cobras);

USS Guadalcanal (LPH-7), the third Iwo Jima-class amphibious assault ship (helicopter), was launched by the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard 16 March 1963, sponsored by Zola Shoup, wife of General Shoup, the former Commandant of the Marine Corps; and commissioned 20 July 1963. It was the second ship in the Navy to bear the name.

History
USS Guadalcanal in New York in 1992
United States
Name	Guadalcanal
Namesake	Battle of Guadalcanal
Ordered	21 December 1959
Builder	Philadelphia Naval Shipyard
Laid down	1 September 1961
Launched	16 March 1963
Commissioned	20 July 1963
Decommissioned	31 August 1994
Stricken	31 August 1994
Identification	Callsign: NIEG Hull number: LPH-7
Motto	There When Needed
Nickname(s)	The Golden Guad
Fate	Sunk as target, 19 May 2005
General characteristics
Class & type	Iwo Jima-class amphibious assault ship
Displacement	19,395 tons
Length	602.3 ft (183.6 m)
Beam	84 ft (26 m)
Draught	27 ft (8.2 m)
Propulsion	2 × 600 psi (4.1 MPa) boilers, one 22 ft (7 m) diameter screw, 23,000 shaft horse power
Speed	23 knots (26 mph; 43 km/h)
Complement	685 (47 officer, 638 enlisted)
Armament	Initially: 2 × 2 3-inch (76 mm) / 50 caliber DP guns, 8 cell Sea Sparrow BPDMS launchers, Later: 2 × Phalanx CIWS
Aircraft carried	11 - CH-53 Sea Stallions; 20 - CH-46 Sea Knights (representative, actual complement was mixed, including UH-1s and AH-1W Super Cobras)