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USS GUNSTON HALL

(LSD-5)

U CAll, We Hall, Gunston Hall

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LSD-5 Deployments - Major Events

Add a LSD-5 Shellback Initiation Add a LSD-5 Deployment - Major Event
Month Year to Month Year Deployment / Event
MAY 1943 Launch Date: 1 MAY 1943
NOV 1943 Commissioned: 10 NOV 1943
MAR 1949 - MAR 1949 Recommisioned
JUL 1957 - MAR 1958 West Pac
OCT 1962 - OCT 1962 Cuban Missle Blockade
NOV 1964 - JUN 1965 West Pac-Viet Nam
JAN 1965 - FEB 1966 West Pac-Viet Nam
JAN 1966 - FEB 1967 Took PACV\'S to Nam
MAY 1966 - Shellback Initiation - 30 MAY 1966 - Pacific Ocean
AUG 1969 - APR 1970 West Pac-Viet Nam

LSD-5 General Specifications

Complement: 23 Officers and 267 Enlisted

Displacement: 7930 tons

Length: 457 feet 9 inches

Beam: 72 feet 2 inches

Draft: 8 feet 2 in

Flank Speed: 17 knots

Final Disposition: Scrapped