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
More information on USS Iwo Jima from the United States Navy.
Sold for scrapping, 18 December 1995, by the Defense Reutilization and Marking Service (DRMS).
