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USS Barbour County (LST-1195)
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| Awarded: | July 1968 |
| Laid down: | 7 November 1970 |
| Launched: | 15 May 1971 |
| Commissioned: | 12 February 1972 |
| Decommissioned: | 30 March 1992 |
| Stricken: | 31 July 2001 |
| Fate: | Sunk as a target ship 6 April 2004 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 8,792 tons full load |
| Length: | 522 ft (159.1 m) |
| Beam: | 70 ft (21.3 m) |
| Draft: | 19 ft (5.8 m) |
| Propulsion: | 6 × diesels; 16,000 hp; 2 × shafts; Single screw controllable pitch bow thruster |
| Speed: | 20 knots (37 km/h) |
| Complement: | 14 officers, 210 enlisted, 360-400 embarked troops |
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| Cargo: | 17,300 ft² (1,607 m²) vehicle, 2000 tons total (500 when beaching) |
USS Barbour County (LST-1195) was named after Barbour County, Alabama & Barbour County, West Virginia. She was laid down on 7 November 1970 at San Diego, California, by the National Steel and Shipbuilding Corporation; launched on 15 May 1971. John G. Shimming was in command.
Barbour County was the seventeenth ship of the Newport class amphibious ships.
The USS Barbour County's was sunk on 6 April, 2004. The ship was sunk as a target ship by AGM-65 and AGM-84 damage at location: 022° 57' 20.0" North, 160° 05' 01.5" West Depth: 2560 fathoms Tonnage: 8500
This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
- DANFS entry: USS Barbour County
- Naval Vessel Register entry for Barbour County
- navsource.org: USS Barbour County
- united-states-navy.com: USS Barbour County
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Categories: Newport class tank landing ships | United States Navy West Virginia-related ships | United States Navy Alabama-related ships | Cold War amphibious warfare vessels of the United States | Vietnam War amphibious warfare vessels of the United States | Barbour County, West Virginia | United States Navy ships disposed of as targets