US Navy's Iwo Jima-class amphibious assault ship USS “Tripoli” (LPH-10) at Kobe, Japan, 11th March 1972
Builder: Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp., Pascagoula, Mississippi
Displacements: c.17,000 (standard), c.18,300 (full load)
Length overall: 180.0 m
Max. draft: 7.9 m
Main engine: 1 geared steam turbine, 23,000 s.h.p.
Speed (sustained): 20 knots
Complement: 528 Navy (48 officers & 480 enlisted personnel) plus accommodation for 2,090 Marines
Laid down 15 June 1964
Commissioned 6 August 1966
Decommissioned 15 September 1995 & placed in Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet, California
Leased 2004 to US Army's Terminal High Altitude Area Defense programme for use as a mobile launch platform for ballistic missiles under the name name “Ex Tripoli” (MLP-1)
Placed in Beaumont Reserve Fleet, Beaumont, Texas, March 2015
Towed to Brownsville, Texas, July 2018 for scrapping by European Metal Recycling Co.