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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Plymouth Rock (LSD-29), 1954-1995

USS Plymouth Rock, a 11,270-ton Thomaston class dock landing ship, was built at Pascagoula, Mississippi. Commissioned in November 1954, she was assigned to the Atlantic Fleet. Over the next three decades, Plymouth Rock deployed regularly to the Caribbean area, made several cruises with the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean, and occasionally visited northern Europe and South America. She also participated in Arctic Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line support operations in 1955 and 1957, a Project "Mercury" space flight support mission in 1961, the Cuban Missile Crisis blockade in 1962, the Palomares nuclear weapons recovery effort in 1966, weapons development efforts, disaster relief undertakings, and a large number of Amphibious exercises. USS Plymouth Rock was decommissioned in September 1983. Following a decade in the Reserve Fleet, she was sold for scrapping in September 1995.

This page features all our images related to USS Plymouth Rock.

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Photo #: NH 97359

USS Plymouth Rock (LSD-29)


Photographed circa the later 1950s or early 1960s, with a HUS helicopter parked on her after deck.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 130KB; 740 x 610 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 97360

USS Plymouth Rock (LSD-29)


Photographed circa 1963, while she was fitted with a retractable sonar forward.
The photograph was received with the annual ship's historical submission, dated 6 January 1964.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 115KB; 740 x 605 pixels

 
Photo #: USN 1089896

USS Plymouth Rock (LSD-29)


Underway on 8 April 1963, shortly before she deployed to the Mediterranean for a tour with the Sixth Fleet.
She has an experimental retractable sonar fitted to her bow.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph.

Online Image: 98KB; 740 x 610 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system as Photo # 428-N-1089896.

 
Photo #: NH 97361

USS Plymouth Rock (LSD-29)


Pulls alongside USS Iwo Jima (LPH-2) for refueling, during operations in the Atlantic, February 1979.
Photographed by PH2 Alexander and PH3 Kent from on board the Iwo Jima. CH-46 "Sea Knight" helicopters of Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 261 (HMM-261) are parked in the foreground.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 99KB; 475 x 765 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 85059

Amphibious Group at sea, 17 April 1964


The ships are USS Hermitage (LSD-34) in left foreground, USS Francis Marion (APA-249) in center, USS Plymouth Rock (LSD-29) in the left rear and USS Yancey (APA-93) in the right rear.
Three UH-34 helicopters are flying in formation over the Francis Marion.

Photograph received from USS Francis Marion, 1964.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 92KB; 740 x 610 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 64706-KN (Color)

Insignia of USS Plymouth Rock (LDS-29)

This emblem was received from the ship in 1958.
It features an alligator (symbol of the Amphibious Force) in Pilgrim dress, standing on the ship's namesake, Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts. A depiction of USS Plymouth Rock is in the left background.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 125KB; 650 x 675 pixels

 


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27 September 2000