en USS Portland (LSD-37)

	Portland stands out of the harbor at the Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek, Virginia, 2003
History
United States
Name	Portland
Namesake	Portland, Maine; Portland, Oregon;
Ordered	25 February 1966
Laid down	5 May 1968
Launched	20 December 1969
Commissioned	3 October 1970
Decommissioned	4 August 2003
Stricken	8 March 2004
Nickname(s)	Sweet Pea
Fate	Sunk as a target, 25 April 2004
General characteristics
Displacement	14,181 long tons (14,409 t)
Length	553 ft (169 m)
Beam	84 ft (26 m)
Draft	20 ft (6.1 m)
Propulsion	2 shafts; 2 turbines; two 600 psi (4.1 MPa) boilers
Speed	22 knots
Complement	26 officers and 396 enlisted
Armament	8 × 3 in guns,; 2 CIWS; 4 × .50 calibre guns;

The second USS Portland was a US Navy Anchorage class dock landing ship built at General Dynamics Quincy Shipbuilding Division at Quincy, Massachusetts, and commissioned in 1970.^[1] Portland was decommissioned in 2003 and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register in 2004. It was sunk as a target during an exercise off the Virginia coast later that year.

Citations

Friedman, Norman (1995). "United Kingdom". In Chumbley, Stephen (ed.). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. pp. 544–634. ISBN 1-55750-132-7.