Spacecraft Recovery
9 February 1971: Apollo 14
24 July 1975: ASTP (Apollo 18)
25 September 1973: Skylab 3
8 February 1974: Skylab 4
| General Characteristics: | Awarded: December 18, 1964 |
| Keel laid: March 1, 1966 | |
| Launched: February 3, 1968 | |
| Commissioned: November 16, 1969 | |
| Decommissioned: October 1, 1997 | |
| Builder: Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Philadelphia, Penn. | |
| 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, two Mk-25 Sea Sparrow Missile Launchers | |
| Crew: 80 officers, 638 enlisted, 1,750 Marine Detachment |