HMAS Kanimbla (L-51)
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HMAS Kanimbla in 2010
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 United States of America
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| Name: | USS Saginaw (LST-1188) |
| Namesake: | City of Saginaw, Michigan |
| Builder: | National Steel and Shipbuilding Company |
| Laid down: | 24 May 1969 |
| Launched: | 7 February 1970 |
| Sponsored by: | Wife of R. James Harvey |
| Commissioned: | 23 January 1971 |
| Decommissioned: | 28 June 1994 |
| Homeport: | Little Creek, Virginia |
| Fate: | Transferred to the Royal Australian Navy in 1994 |
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 Australia
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| Name: | Kanimbla |
| Namesake: | Kanimbla Valley |
| Commissioned: | 29 August 1994 |
| Decommissioned: | 25 November 2011 |
| Homeport: | Fleet Base East |
| Motto: | "Cry Havoc" |
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| Fate: | Sold for scrap, 20 May 2013 |
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| General characteristics as Kanimbla | |
| Class and type: | Kanimbla class Landing Platform Amphibious |
| Displacement: | 8,534 tons |
| Length: | 159.2 m (522 ft) |
| Beam: | 21.2 m (70 ft) |
| Draught: | 5.3 m (17 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 6 × ALCO V16 diesel engines, 2,750 hp each driving two shafts (3 engines per shaft) |
| Speed: | 22 knots (41 km/h; 25 mph) |
| Range: | 14,000 nautical miles (26,000 km; 16,000 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
| Boats & landing craft carried: |
2 × LCM8 landing craft |
| Capacity: | 400 embarked forces, 955 square metres of usable tank deck space |
| Complement: | 23 naval officers, 2 army officers, 197 sailors, 18 soldiers |
| Armament: | 1 × 20 mm Phalanx Mk 15 close–in weapon system, 6 × 12.7 mm Machine guns |
| Aircraft carried: | 4 × Blackhawk or 3 × Sea King |
| Aviation facilities: | Hangar for 4 helicopters, 3 landing spots |
HMAS Kanimbla (L 51) (formerly USS Saginaw (LST-1188)) was the lead ship of the Kanimbla class Landing Platform Amphibious ships. Laid down in 1969 for the United States Navy (USN) as Newport class tank landing ship USS Saginaw, the ship was acquired by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) in 1994 for conversion into an amphibious warfare transport ship.
Since entering RAN service in 1999, Kanimbla participated in numerous worldwide deployments, including the Iraq War, the response to the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, and in response to the 2006 Fijian coup d'état. During the ship's career, two helicopters were lost in crashes. After a fire broke out aboard Kanimbla in late 2010, she and sister ship Manoora were removed from active service because of extensive problems found aboard both ships. The intention was to repair Kanimbla and return her to service by 2012, but this was deemed uneconomical. The ship was decommissioned in 2011, and sold for breaking in 2013.
The ship was laid down by National Steel and Shipbuilding Company at San Diego, California for the USN on 24 May 1969 as Newport class tank landing ship USS Saginaw. She was launched on 7 February 1970, sponsored by the wife of R. James Harvey, a Congressman and former mayor of Saginaw, Michigan, and commissioned into the United States Navy on 23 January 1971. She was named after the city of Saginaw, Michigan.
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