Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index insert image here insert caption here (insert link to larger image here) Career Awarded: 21 September 1961 Laid down: 18 December 1963 Launched: 14 August 1965 Commissioned: 18 December 1965 Fate: Active, in commission Homeport: San Diego, California General Characteristics Displacement: 9079 tons light, 16861 tons full, 7782 tons dead Length: 173.4 meters (569 feet) overall, 167 meters (548 feet) waterline Beam: 32.9 meters (108 feet) extreme, 25.6 meters (84 feet) waterline Draft: 6.7 meters (22 feet) maximum, 7 meters (23 feet) limit Complement: 101 officers, 1337 men USS Duluth (LPD-6), an Austin class amphibious transport dock, is the second ship of the United States Navy named for the city in Minnesota. Her keel was laid down on 18 December 1963 by the New York Naval Shipyard. She was launched on 14 August 1965 and commissioned on 18 December 1965. Information on her forty-year career is needed. References This article includes data from the Naval Vessel Registry. The Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships has no entry for LPD-6. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.