Spanish landing ship Hernán Cortés (L41)
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Barnstable County |
| Namesake: | Barnstable County, Massachusetts |
| Ordered: | 15 July 1966 |
| Builder: | National Steel and Shipbuilding Corporation |
| Laid down: | 19 December 1970 |
| Launched: | 2 October 1971 |
| Acquired: | 1 May 1972 |
| Commissioned: | 27 May 1972 |
| Decommissioned: | 29 June 1994 |
| Struck: | 23 July 2002 |
| Identification: | LST-1197 |
| Fate: | Sold to the Spanish Navy |
 Spain
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| Name: | Hernán Cortés |
| Namesake: | Hernán Cortés |
| Commissioned: | 26 August 1994 |
| Decommissioned: | 13 November 2009 |
| Identification: | Pennant number L-41 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Newport-class tank landing ship |
| Displacement: | 8,792 long tons (8,933.1 t) full load |
| Length: | 522 ft (159.1 m) |
| Beam: | 70 ft (21.34 m) |
| Draft: | 19 ft (5.79 m) |
| Propulsion: | 6 × diesels; 16,000 hp; 2 × shafts; Single screw controllable pitch bow thruster |
| Speed: | 20 knots (37.0 km/h) |
| Capacity: | 17,300 sq ft (1,607.2 m2) vehicle, 2,000 short tons (1,814.4 t) total (500 short tons (453.6 t) when beaching) |
| Troops: | 360-400 embarked troops |
| Complement: | 14 officers, 210 enlisted |
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USS Barnstable County (LST-1197) was the nineteenth ship of the Newport class of tank landing ships. She was laid down on 19 December 1970 at San Diego, California, by the National Steel and Shipbuilding Corporation and launched on 2 October 1971. She was commissioned on 27 May 1972, Commander Warren R. Ellsworth in command. The ship was named after Barnstable County, Massachusetts.
Between 27 May and 24 July 1972, the tank landing ship completed fitting out, first at Long Beach and then at San Diego in July. On 24 July, she set sail from San Diego bound for her permanently assigned base of operations--Little Creek, Virginia She transited the Panama Canal on 7 August and arrived at Little Creek on 14 August. On 6 September, the ship got underway for Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, whence she conducted shakedown training until returning to Little Creek on 21 October. Barnstable County completed her final contract trials early in November and then settled into a training routine that lasted until the first week in December. At that time, she began an extended stay at Little Creek that carried her into the new year. After loading ammunition on 11 January 1973, she proceeded to Morehead City, North Carolina, to embark marines. From there, the tank landing ship set course for the West Indies where she visited Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, Vieques Island and Roosevelt Roads in Puerto Rico, and St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands before returning to Little Creek on the 24 January . She carried out training landings at Onslow Beach, North Carolina, on 31 January and conducted independent ship's exercises on 1 and 2 February.
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