USS Mount Vernon (LSD-39)

USS Mount Vernon in 1991
History
United States
Name	USS Mount Vernon
Namesake	George Washington's home, Mount Vernon[2]
Awarded	25 February 1966[1]
Builder	General Dynamics[1]
Laid down	29 January 1970[1]
Launched	17 April 1971[1]
Acquired	1 April 1972[1]
Commissioned	13 May 1972[1]
Decommissioned	25 July 2003[1]
Stricken	8 March 2004[1]
Motto	"Exitus acta probat," or "Action Produces Results."[3]
Fate	Sunk as target, 16 June 2005[1]
General characteristics
Class and type	Anchorage-class dock landing ship
Tonnage	5,440 long tons (5,530 t) deadweight[1]
Displacement	8,762 long tons (8,903 t) light[1] 14,202 long tons (14,430 t) full[1]
Length	553 ft (169 m) overall[1] 540 ft (160 m) at the waterline[1]
Beam	84 ft (26 m)[1]
Draft	20 ft (6.1 m) (max navigational draft)[1]
Propulsion	Steam turbines, two propellers.[1]
Complement	52 officers, 742 enlisted.[1]
Notes	Steel hull, steel superstructure.[1]

USS Mount Vernon (LSD-39) was an Anchorage-class dock landing ship of the United States Navy. She was the fifth ship of the U.S. Navy to bear the name.^[2] She was built in Massachusetts in 1972 and homeported in Southern California for 31 years until being decommissioned on 25 July 2003. Mount Vernon acted as the control ship for the cleanup of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. In 2005, she was intentionally destroyed off the coast of Hawaii as part of a training exercise. USS Mount Vernon also appeared in the Season 7 episode 19 of The Love Boat when they visited Hong Kong.