Ex - USS Nashville (LPD-13) (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

 ship, United States Navy, military reserve force

USS Nashville is the 10th member of the Austin Class of Landing Platform Dock ships (LPD's) and was laid down in March 1966 and commissioned into US Navy service in February 1970.

Transiting the Panama Canal on her maiden voyage, the Nashville joined the US Atlantic Fleet and began operations which would eventually see her paired with four Caribbean Amphibious Ready Groups, eight Mediterranean Groups, two Persian Gulf Groups, a Mine Countermeasure Task Group and numerous NATO Operations.

After serving as part of Amphibious Group Two at Norfolk the USS Nashville decommissioned from the US Navy in September 2009 after 39 years of active service and was towed here to the Philadelphia NISMF for lay-up where she remains in Category B Reserve.

www.navsource.org/archives/10/09/0913.htm
www.nvr.navy.mil/nvrships/details/LPD13.htm