Spacecraft Recovery
17 April 1970: Apollo 13
| General Characteristics: | Awarded: January 30, 1958 |
| Keel laid: April 2, 1959 | |
| Launched: September 17, 1960 | |
| Commissioned: August 26, 1961 | |
| Decommissioned: July 14, 1993 | |
| Builder: Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA. | |
| Propulsion system: Two boilers, one geared steam turbines, one shaft, 22,000 total shaft horsepower | |
| Propellers: one | |
| Length: 603, 65 feet (184 meters) | |
| Beam: 104 feet (31.7 meters) | |
| Draft: 25,9 feet (7.9 meters) | |
| Aircraft elevators: two | |
| Displacement: approx. 19,500 tons full load | |
| Speed: 23 knots | |
| Aircraft: 20 UH-46D Sea Knight Helicopters, 10 MH-53E Sea Stallion Helicopters, 3 UH-1 Helicopters, 3 AH-1 Helicopters but the actual mix depends upon mission | |
| Armament: two Phalanx CIWS | |
| Crew: 80 officers, 638 enlisted, 1,750 Marine Detachment |
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Sold for scrapping, 18 December 1995, by the Defense Reutilization and Marking Service (DRMS).