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U.S.S. HERMITAGE
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The USS HERMITAGE (LSD-34), a Thomaston-class dock landing ship, was commissioned on 14 DEC 1956. USS HERMITAGE, named for President Andrew Jackson's estate near Nashville, Tennessee, was built by Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. in Pascagoula, Miss. After fit out and shake down HERMITAGE sailed for her homeport of Norfolk, Virginia. August 1957 had HERMITAGE beginning a long series of deployments that compose the life of a "Gator Freighter". HERMITAGE was an early visitor to the Indian Ocean when she carried helicopters to Pakistan in 1959-60, for state visits by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. A South American cruise followed in 1960, then duty during the Cuban Missile Blockade in October 1962. HERMITAGE deployed once to the Western Pacific in support of the Vietnamese war effort in 1967. Returning to the Atlantic. HERMITAGE continued her deployments to the "Med", North Atlantic and Caribbean for the next 22 years. USS HERMITAGE served her country for 32 years, 9 months and 18 days, until decommissioned on 2 OCT 1989. First lent, then sold to, Brazil, HERMITAGE continues in Brazilian service as NDD Cear� (G-30).
The USS HERMITAGE (LSD-34) deployment history and significant events of her service career follow:
LSD-34 Deployments - Major Events
Add a LSD-34 Shellback Initiation | Add a LSD-34 Deployment - Major Event | ||||
Month | Year | to | Month | Year | Deployment / Event |
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APR | 1955 | - | Keel Date: 11 APR 1955 at Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula MS | ||
JUN | 1956 | - | Launch Date: 12 JUN 1956 | ||
DEC | 1956 | - | JAN | 1957 | Commisioning |
DEC | 1956 | - | Commissioned: 14 DEC 1956 | ||
AUG | 1957 | - | OCT | 1957 | Mediterranean |
JAN | 1960 | - | APR | 1960 | president eisenhower helicopter transport to karachi |
NOV | 1960 | - | APR | 1961 | South America |
DEC | 1960 | - | Shellback Initiation - 22 DEC 1960 - Atlantic Ocean | ||
JAN | 1961 | - | Shellback Initiation - 17 JAN 1961 - Atlantic Ocean | ||
OCT | 1962 | - | OCT | 1962 | Cuban Missle Blockade |
OCT | 1962 | - | NOV | 1962 | Cuban Missle Blockade |
NOV | 1962 | - | DEC | 1962 | Participation in Cuban Blockade |
APR | 1963 | - | SEP | 1963 | Mediterranean |
MAY | 1963 | - | OCT | 1963 | Mediterranean |
OCT | 1963 | - | JAN | 1964 | Mediterranean |
JAN | 1964 | - | APR | 1964 | Caribbean |
OCT | 1964 | - | NOV | 1964 | Mediterranean |
JUN | 1965 | - | SEP | 1965 | Caribbean |
APR | 1967 | - | DEC | 1967 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
JUN | 1968 | - | NOV | 1968 | Caribbean |
JAN | 1970 | - | Shellback Initiation - 10 JAN 1970 - Atlantic Ocean | ||
NOV | 1970 | - | JAN | 1971 | Mediterranean-Indian Ocean |
NOV | 1970 | - | MAY | 1971 | Mediterranean |
JAN | 1972 | - | SEP | 1975 | Mediterranean-Indian Ocean |
OCT | 1972 | - | APR | 1973 | Mediterranean |
JAN | 1973 | - | JUN | 1973 | Dry Dock |
MAR | 1973 | - | MAR | 1977 | North Atlantic-Med-Indian Ocean |
FEB | 1974 | - | JUN | 1974 | Mediterranean |
FEB | 1974 | - | JUN | 1977 | Mediterranean |
FEB | 1974 | - | JUN | 1977 | Mediterranean |
DEC | 1974 | - | FEB | 1975 | Caribbean |
APR | 1975 | - | JUN | 1975 | Grounding off Morehead City - Dry-docked in Charleston SC |
APR | 1975 | - | DEC | 1975 | Accident |
AUG | 1975 | - | JAN | 1976 | Mediterranean |
SEP | 1976 | - | DEC | 1976 | North Atlantic |
OCT | 1976 | - | DEC | 1976 | 2nd tank battallion 2marine division nato cruise |
APR | 1977 | - | OCT | 1977 | Mediterranean |
APR | 1977 | - | OCT | 1977 | Mediterranean |
JAN | 1978 | - | SEP | 1980 | Mediterranean |
AUG | 1979 | - | JUL | 1982 | Mediterranean-Indian Ocean-Persian Gulf |
OCT | 1979 | - | FEB | 1980 | Mediterranean |
JAN | 1980 | - | MAR | 1980 | North Atlantic |
FEB | 1981 | - | JUL | 1981 | Mediterranean |
JUN | 1981 | - | APR | 1982 | Mediterranean-Indian Ocean-Persian Gulf |
JUN | 1981 | - | APR | 1982 | Mediterranean-Indian Ocean-Persian Gulf |
NOV | 1984 | - | AUG | 1986 | North Atlantic-Med-Indian Ocean |
NOV | 1984 | - | JUN | 1986 | Mediterranean |
JAN | 1985 | - | JAN | 1988 | Mediterranean |
NOV | 1985 | - | JUN | 1986 | Mediterranean |
JAN | 1986 | - | JAN | 1986 | Mediterranean-Indian Ocean |
MAY | 1988 | - | Shellback Initiation - 23 MAY 1988 - Pacific Ocean | ||
MAY | 1988 | - | MAY | 1988 | Mediterranean |
OCT | 1989 | - | Decommissioned: 2 OCT 1989 | ||
MAY | 1998 | - | OCT | 1999 | Mediterranean-Indian Ocean-Persian Gulf |
LSD-34 General Specifications
Class: Thomaston-class dock landing ship
Named for: The Hermitage
Complement: 304 Officers and Enlisted
Displacement: 8899 tons
Length: 510 feet
Beam: 84 feet
Flank Speed: 21 knots
Final Disposition: Transferred to Brazil 2 October 1989
USS HERMITAGE (LSD-34)
Hermitage (LSD-34) was launched 12 June 1956 by the Ingalls Shipbulldlng
Corp.
Pascagoula
Miss.; sponsored by Mrs. Alfred M. Pride
wife of Vice
Admiral Alfred M. Pride
and commissioned 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 Norfolk
she sailed for the Mediterranean 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 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 2 December via the Atlantic
Mediterranean
Suez Canal
and Red and Arabian Seas to furnish quick and safe transportation for President
Dwight D. Eisenhower on his Asian and European tour. Mission successfully
completed
she returned home via Barcelona 17 January 1960.
Foreign waters called Hermitage by the end of the year as she sailed
28 November as flagship for Admiral A. L. Reed
COMSOLANT
for a good will
cruise to South America and Africa. In the midst of this important cruise
Hermitage was diverted 19 January 1961 to carry grain to the Congo
to help the United Nations combat starvation in that revolution-torn country.
Relieved as flagship 3 May by Spiegel Grove
Hermitage returned
to Virginia 16 May and soon resumed her pattern of operations and exercises
off the Virginia Capes and in the Caribbean.
When the presence of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba threatened war in Octoher
1962
Hermitage sailed to Guantanamo to transport Marines to that
threatened base and underline America's determination to maintain her position
there. A second cruise to the Mediterranean from May to October 1963 took
Hermitage to Naples
Athens
Genoa
Cannes
Sardinia
Malta
and
Rota as well as other ports in the 6th Fleet's continuing role of peace-keeping
and protection of American interests in that crucial area.
After an assignment in February 1904 to the Caribbean Ready Squadron 12
based in Panama
early in May Hermitage undertook a logistics lift
to Bermuda and Sydney and Halifax
Nova Scotia
and in the fall took part
until late November in the Navy-Marine Corps peacetime exercise "Steel
Pike I
" visiting ports of Malaga and Gibraltar. In June 1965 she participated
in a 3-month deployment to the Caribbean area during the later stages of
the Dominican Republic crisis
making practice amphibious landings at Vieques
Island. After completion of overhaul in February 1966 followed by refresher
training and amphibious training
Hermitage transported a marine
battalion to the Caribbean in May. Through 1967 she continued in her assignment
to the Atlantic Fleet.
Hermitage was decommissioned 02 October 1989. She ws transferred
to the Brazilian Navy as Ceara the same day
[Note: The above USS HERMITAGE (LSD-34) history may or may not contain text provided by crew members of the USS HERMITAGE (LSD-34) or by other non-crew members and text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]