USS Trenton (LPD-14)
Trenton's crew "man the rail" as a commercial tug pushes them to the pier at Port Everglades, FL, for Fleet Week 2004.
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Trenton |
| Ordered: | 17 May 1965 |
| Laid down: | 8 August 1966 |
| Launched: | 3 August 1968 |
| Commissioned: | 6 March 1971 |
| Decommissioned: | 17 January 2007 |
| Struck: | 17 January 2007 |
| Homeport: | Norfolk, Virginia |
| Motto: | "No Greater Gator" |
| Fate: | sold to Indian Navy and renamed INS Jalashwa on 17 January 2007 |
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 India
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| Name: | INS Jalashwa |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Austin class LPD |
| Type: | amphibious transport dock |
| Displacement: | 8894 tons light, 16590 tons full, 7696 tons dead |
| Length: | 173.7 meters (570 feet) overall, 167 meters (548 feet) waterline |
| Beam: | 30.4 meters (100 feet) extreme, 25.6 meters (84 feet) waterline |
| Draught: | 6.7 meters (22 feet) maximum, 7 meters (23 feet) limit |
| Speed: | 21 knots |
| Complement: | 28 officers, 480 men, 1436 marines |
| Armament: | 4 × 3 in / 50 caliber AA gun mounts |
| Aircraft carried: | Up to six CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters |
USS Trenton (LPD-14), an Austin-class amphibious transport dock, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for the capital of New Jersey. In 2007, it was sold to the Indian Navy and renamed INS Jalashwa (L41).
Her keel was laid down at Seattle, Washington, on 8 August 1966 by the Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company. She was launched on 3 August 1968 sponsored by Mrs. Richard J. Hughes, and commissioned on 6 March 1971 with Captain Karl R. Thiele in command.
Trenton got under way on 9 April for the East Coast and reached her home port, Norfolk, Virginia, on 12 May. The amphibious transport dock remained in port until 1 June when she departed Hampton Roads for shakedown training out of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. However, on 28 June, her shakedown cruise was interrupted when a steam valve in her number two engine room ruptured, killing four sailors instantly and severely injuring six others. The injured men were evacuated first to Guantánamo Bay and thence to the burn ward of the Army Hospital at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. There, two of the six subsequently died as a result of their injuries.
Trenton returned to Guantánamo Bay for interim repairs and then made her way back to Norfolk on one engine, arriving on 6 July. After repairs at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, she completed shakedown training off the Virginia Capes and in the Guantánamo Bay operating area. On 9 November, the ship returned to Norfolk and remained there through the end of 1971.
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