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USS Guadalcanal (LPH-7), an
Iwo Jima class amphibious assault ship, was launched by the
Philadelphia Naval Shipyard 16 March 1963, sponsored by Mrs. David Shoup, wife of
General Shoup, the former
Commandant of the Marine Corps; and commissioned
20 July 1963, Captain Dale K. Peterson in command.
An
amphibious assault ship named USS
Guadalcanal has appeared as the location of the TV show
JAG.
Upon completion of sea trials and outfitting,
Guadalcanal departed
Philadelphia to join the Amphibious Forces,
U.S. Atlantic Fleet. One of a new class of ships designed from the keel up to embark, transport, and land assault marines by means of helicopters, she lent new strength and flexibility to amphibious operations. After departing
Norfolk 23 October 1963 for 6 weeks shakedown training at
Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba,
Guadalcanal steamed to
Onslow Beach,
North Carolina,
6 December for practice amphibious landings. She then carried on training and readiness operations with the Atlantic Fleet, based in Norfolk until departing for
Panama 11 February 1964. Following 2 months on station as flagship for Commander PhibRon 12 with the 12 Marine Expeditionary Unit embarked and ready to land anywhere needed.
Guadalcanal entered Philadelphia Naval Shipyard
26 May, but was deployed again
7 October as a unit of Operation "Steel Pike 1", a
NATO landing exercise on the beaches of southern
Spain.
Guadalcanal continued to serve in the Atlantic Fleet into 1967. Highlights of her career included
21 July 1966 when she recovered
Gemini X astronauts after their spacecraft landed in the Atlantic east of
Cape Kennedy, and
13 March 1969 when she recovered
Apollo 9 off the
Bahamas.
In 1987 the
Guadalcanal was leading
minesweeping operations in the
Persian Gulf when it encountered the
Iran Ajar laying mines in the shipping lanes. Helicopters from the Guadalcanal attacked the ship; troops from the Guadalcanal boarded and captured the ship. (Iran Ajar was the second enemy warship captured on the high seas by the U.S. Navy since 1815; the first was the
U-505 captured in 1944 by the first USS Guadalcanal, an escort carrier.) This Guadalcanal also provided the Marines for the first wave of
Operation Provide Comfort, the
Kurdish relief operations in Northern Iraq immediately following the
Persian Gulf War in 1991.
She was decommissioned in 1994, and stored as part of the
James River Reserve Fleet until she was used as a target and sunk in March, 2005.
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