Construction
All five warships were built by Ingalls Shipbuilding, at this company's shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi. The Tarawa was approved for construction during Fiscal Year 1969, with two more ships of this class ordered by Congress in the 1970 and 1971 fiscal years. Nine ships of this class were originally contemplated for the Tarawa class, but just five were ordered and built, and the four ships were never ordered by the Navy.
Work on the first warship of this class, the USS Tarawa, began on 15 November 1971, and she was commissioned into the Navy on 29 May 1976. The last of the five ships, the USS Peleliu, was completed on 3 May 1980.
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