USS Hermitage (LSD-34)
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| History | |
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Hermitage |
| Namesake: | The Hermitage |
| Awarded: | 14 October 1954 |
| Builder: | Ingalls Shipbuilding |
| Laid down: | 11 April 1955 |
| Launched: | 12 June 1956 |
| Commissioned: | 14 December 1956 |
| Decommissioned: | 2 October 1989 |
| Identification: | LSD-34 |
| Fate: | Transferred to Brazil, 2 October 1989 |
| Struck: | 24 January 2001 |
 Brazil
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| Name: | Ceará |
| Acquired: | 2 October 1989 |
| Identification: | G30 |
| Status: | in reserve |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Thomaston-class dock landing ship |
| Displacement: |
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| Length: | 510 ft (160 m) |
| Beam: | 84 ft (26 m) |
| Draft: | 19 ft (5.8 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 × steam turbines, 2 shafts, 23,000 shp (17 MW) |
| Speed: | 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph) |
| Boats & landing craft carried: |
21 × LCM-6 landing craft in well deck |
| Troops: | 300 |
| Complement: | 304 |
| Armament: |
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| Aircraft carried: | Up to 8 helicopters |
| Aviation facilities: | Helicopter landing area |
USS Hermitage (LSD-34) was a Thomaston-class dock landing ship of the United States Navy. She was named for The Hermitage, President Andrew Jackson's estate just outside Nashville, Tennessee.
Hermitage was laid down on 11 April 1955, by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp., Pascagoula, Miss.; launched on 12 June 1956; sponsored by Mrs. Alfred M. Pride, wife of Vice Admiral Alfred M. Pride, and commissioned on 14 December 1956, Captain Leonard A. Parker in command.
While on shakedown in the Caribbean, Hermitage was informally inspected by Admiral Arleigh Burke, then Chief of Naval Operations. After training operations out of Naval Station Norfolk, she sailed for the Mediterranean Sea in late August to join the 6th Fleet. Hermitage participated in exercises with NATO units and visited Sicily, Crete, Turkey, Italy, Greece, and Spain before returning to the States on 16 November 1957. Operations primarily with fast amphibious helicopter assault equipment and tactics occupied her until November 1959. With a cargo of Presidential helicopters embarked, Hermitage sailed to Karachi on 2 December via the Atlantic, Mediterranean, Suez Canal, and Red and Arabian seas to furnish transportation for President Dwight D. Eisenhower on his Asian and European tour. Mission successfully completed, she returned home via Barcelona on 17 January 1960.
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