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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 Naval Veteran-Owned Business
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. Ann Daniels Love, wife of John A. Love the former 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 was one of the last active warships to have served in Vietnam.
History
Role in the SS Columbia Eagle mutiny
In 1970, USS Denver played a key role in the SS Columbia Eagle incident. When the SS Columbia Eagle was commandeered by two mutinous crew members on 14 March 1970, Denver was immediately dispatched to intercept and recapture Columbia Eagle.[citation needed] Denver never really caught up with Columbian Eagle, and sat outside the 12 mile limits of Cambodia (to where Columbia Eagle had been diverted) for a few days then departed the area.
Vietnam War, 1975
In April 1975, Denver participated in Operation Frequent Wind, the evacuation of Saigon, Vietnam.
Collision with USNS Yukon
On 13 July 2000, the ship was participating in a refueling exercise near the end of a deployment. Denver, off the coast of Oahu, collided with its refueling vessel, USNS Yukon. Denver’s bow was seriously damaged.[2][3] It remained in port at Pearl Harbor undergoing repairs for two weeks.
Typhoon Morakot
Beginning on 17 August 2009 Denver started rendering humanitarian assistance to Taiwan du
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