Suffolk County's LogSuffolk County's LogHere is the page for the Suffolk County. Please send me any items you would like to see posted.
This picture was taken in the Med and is from Rich Tameris.
Suffolk County (LST-1173) (q.v.) was named after counties in
Massachusetts and New York. She was laid down on 17 July 1955
at the Boston Naval Shipyard; launched on 5 September 1956; sponsored
by Mrs. Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr.; and commissioned on 15 August
1957, Lt. Comdr. James E. Brown in command.
Assigned to the Amphibious Force, Atlantic Fleet, following commissioning,
Suffolk County spent her entire active service operating off the
east coast of the United States interspersed with numerous deployments
to the Caribbean and the Mediterranean. Decommissioned on 25 August
1972, Suffolk County was assigned to the Atlantic Reserve Fleet
and berthed at Norfolk, Va.
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