USS Fort Fisher (LSD-40)
USS Fort Fisher (LSD-40) was an Anchorage-class dock landing ship of the United States Navy.
Fort Fisher was laid down on 15 July 1970 at General Dynamics Quincy Shipbuilding and launched on 22 April 1972. She was commissioned on 9 December 1972.
Fort Fisher was decommissioned on 27 February 1998 and struck from the Naval Vessel Registry on the same day. On 30 September 2009, a contract to dismantle Fort Fisher was issued to International Shipbreaking Ltd, Brownsville, Tx. Fort Fisher departed the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet on 5 January 2010 under tow to Brownsville, Tx. Fort Fisher completed her dismantling on 14 January 2011.
Read more about USS Fort Fisher (LSD-40): External Links, References
Famous quotes containing the words fort and/or fisher:
“How often we read that the enemy occupied a position which commanded the old, and so the fort was evacuated! Have not the school-house and the printing-press occupied a position which commands such a fort as this?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“For anyone addicted to reading commonplace books ... finding a good new one is much like enduring a familiar recurrence of malaria, with fever, fits of shaking, strange dreams. Unlike a truly paludismic ordeal, however, the symptoms felt while savoring a collection of one man’s pet quotations are voluptuously enjoyable ...”
—M.F.K. Fisher (1908–1992)