Uss Coronado (Agf 11)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. USS Coronado (LPD/AGF-11) is the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the city in California. She was designed as an Austin-class amphibious transport dock (LPD), one of seven fitted with an additional superstructure level for command ship duties. Her keel was laid down on 1 May 1965 by the Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company of Seattle, Washington. She was launched on 1 July 1966. After two years of labor shortages and a 12-month strike, she was commissioned 23 May 1970. First assigned to the U.S. Atlantic Fleet in the 1970s, Coronado conducted extensive operations, deploying on numerous occasions to the Caribbean Sea and Mediterranean Sea, as well as Northern Europe.

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