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Class overview
Name	Terrebonne Parish class
Builders	Bath Iron Works Ingalls Shipbuilding Christy Shipbuilding
Operators	United States Navy  Spanish Navy  Hellenic Navy  Peruvian Navy  Bolivarian Navy of Venezuela  Turkish Navy
Preceded by	Talbot County class
Succeeded by	De Soto County class
Built	1952-1954
In commission	1952-1973
Planned	15
Completed	15
Laid up	1
Retired	15
General characteristics
Type	Tank landing ship
Displacement	2,590 long tons (2,632 t) light 5,800 long tons (5,893 t) full load
Length	384 ft (117 m)
Beam	55 ft (17 m)
Draft	17 ft 8 in (5.38 m)
Propulsion	4 × General Motors 16-278A diesel engines 2 × shafts Controllable pitch propellers
Speed	14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Boats & landing craft carried	3 × LCVPs 1 × LCPL
Capacity	28 medium tanks or vehicles to 75 tons on 288 ft (88 m) tank deck 100,000 gal (US) diesel or jet fuel, plus 7,000 gal fuel for embarked vehicles
Troops	395 officers and enlisted men
Complement	16 officers and 189 enlisted men
Armament	3 × 3 in (76 mm)/50 cal Mark 22 guns 5 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannons
Aviation facilities	Helipad

The Terrebonne Parish-class tank landing ship was a class of tank landing ship of United States Navy and later sold to the Spanish, Hellenic, Peruvian, Venezuelan and Turkish Navy.

Development

In the 1950s, fifteen ships were authorized to begin construction by three shipbuilding companies (Bath Iron Works, Ingalls Shipbuilding and Christy Shipbuilding). Three batches of five ships were built by each companies from 1952 until 1954. Several ships proceed to serve in the Vietnam War.^[1]

All ships were put out of service in the United States from 1970 to 1973, with many being transferred to foreign service which some were in service until the mid-2010s.

Washtenaw County was sold for commercial service but was abandoned in 1980 in which she remained afloat at the Columbia River as of 6 December 2021. The ship has been heavily vandalized and stripped of parts throughout the years but despite that, efforts were still being done to repair and make her into a museum ship. She is also the only ship converted into a mine sweeper from her class.

Ships of class

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