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USS DENVER LPD-9 Patch – Plastic Backing

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Sailors!  Enjoy this beautifully embroidered USS DENVER LPD-9 Patch.   You’ll love displaying or wearing it on a jacket!

  • 4″ inches
  • Sew On
  • US Veteran-Owned Business

15 in stock (can be backordered)

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USS Denver LPD 9 Patch – Plastic Backing

Sailors!  Enjoy this beautifully embroidered USS DENVER LPD-9 Patch.   You’ll love displaying or wearing it on a jacket!

  • 4″ inches
  • Sew On
  • US Veteran-Owned Business

USS Denver (LPD-9)USS Denver (LPD-9), an Austin-class amphibious transport dock, is the third ship of United States Navy to bear this name. Denver’s keel was laid 7 July 1964 at Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company, Seattle, Washington. She was launched 23 January 1965, christened by Mrs. John A. Love, wife of the Governor of Colorado, and commissioned 26 October 1968. After 46 years of service, the Denver was decommissioned at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam on 14 August 2014. At the time of her decommissioning, Denver was the oldest deployable warship in the U.S. Navy, and the last active warship to be in Vietnam.

USS Denver (LPD-9), an Austin-class amphibious transport dock, was the third ship of United States Navy to bear this name. Denver’s keel was laid on 7 July 1964 at Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company, Seattle, Washington. She was launched on 23 January 1965, christened by Mrs. Ann Daniels Love, wife of John A. Love, the former governor of Colorado, and commissioned on 26 October 1968. After 46 years of service, Denver was decommissioned at Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam on 14 August 2014. At the time of her decommissioning, Denver was the oldest deployable warship in the U.S. Navy, and was one of the last active warships to have served in Vietnam.
Denver was decommissioned on 14 August 2014 at Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam in Hawaii.[8] She had been the oldest active duty ship in the US Navy behind USS Constitution. Upon Denver’s decommissioning, USS Blue Ridge became the Navy’s second oldest ship.[9] The US government has offered to sell the ship to Malaysia to replace KD Sri Inderapura which was destroyed by fire in an incident in 2009.[10]

The Navy announced that USS Green Bay would replace Denver in Sasebo in summer 2015.[11]

On 22 July 2022, Denver was sunk during a sinking exercise (SINKEX), as part of a multinational exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2022, approximately 50 nautical miles (93 km; 58 mi) northwest of Kauai, Hawaii. She was hit by U.S. Navy F/A-18F Super Hornets long range anti-ship missile; United States Army AH-64 Apache helicopters shot air-to-ground Hellfire missiles, rockets, and 30 mm guns; and Marine Corps F/A-18C/D Hornets fired AGM-88 HARM missiles, followed by a Harpoon (AGM-84) missile, and JDAMs. She was also shelled by USS Chafee with her Mark 45 5-inch (130 mm) gun, Japanese Self Defence Force Type 12 Surface-to-Ship Missiles and the U.S. Army’s High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, sinking her in 15,000 feet (4,600 m) of water in the Pacific Ocean

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