Dock Landing Ship

LSD 33   -   USS Alamo

 

 

 

USS Alamo (LSD 33)

US Navy photo

Type, Class:

 

Dock Landing Ship; Thomaston - class;

Builder:

 

Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi, USA

STATUS:

 

Laid down:

Launched: January 20, 1956

Commissioned: August 24, 1956

Decommissioned: November 12, 1990

Loaned to Brazil - November 12, 1990; renamed Rio de Janeiro (G-31);

Struck from the Naval Register and sold to Brazil - January 24, 2001.

Homeport:

 

-

Namesake:

 

> see history, below;

Ship's Motto:

 

-

Technical Data:

(Measures, Propulsion,

Armament, Aviation, etc.)

 

see: INFO > Dock Landing Ship / Thomaston - class

 

ship images

 

Photo credits: US Navy, US Naval Historical Center

 

Namesake & History:

 

 

USS Alamo (LSD 33):

 

 

 

patches

 

 

 

 

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