(IDNo:6125092) ON: LPH-2
Year: 1961
Name: IWO JIMA
Keel: 13.2.59
Type: Helicopter carrier
Launch Date: 17.9.60
Flag: USA
Date of completion: 26.8.61
Tons: 10717
Link: 3018
DWT: 18000
Length overall: 182.9
LPP: 169.5
Country of build: USA
Beam: 25.7
Builder: Puget Sound NY
Location of yard: Bremerton
Number of screws/Mchy/Speed(kn): 1ST-23.5
stricken 24.9.93 & hulked at Texas Air Museum
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If this was USS IWO JIMA, this was the earlier one, designated LPH 2 (not LHD 7). She was decomissioned in 1993 and later scrapped. IWO JIMA (LHD 7) was commissioned in 2001.
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Year: 1961
Name: IWO JIMA
Keel: 13.2.59
Type: Helicopter carrier
Launch Date: 17.9.60
Flag: USA
Date of completion: 26.8.61
Tons: 10717
Link: 3018
DWT: 18000
Length overall: 182.9
LPP: 169.5
Country of build: USA
Beam: 25.7
Builder: Puget Sound NY
Location of yard: Bremerton
Number of screws/Mchy/Speed(kn): 1ST-23.5
stricken 24.9.93 & hulked at Texas Air Museum
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More informations and pictures:
http://www.navsource.org/archives/10/08/0807.htm
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