>From the “Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships,” 

(1969) Vol. 4, pp.217-218.





MANITOWOC





	A city and county in eastern Wisconsin, located on the 

shore of Lake Michigan.





LST-1180

Displacement:  8,342 t.

Length:  522’

Beam:  69’

Draft:  23’

Speed:  20 k.

Complement:  231

Armament:  4 3”

Class:  NEWPORT



	The second MANITOWOC (LST-1180) was laid down as 

LST-1180 by Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Philadelphia, Pa., 

27 February 1967; named MANITOWOC 21 March 1967; launched 

4 January 1969; sponsored by Mrs. Gaylord Nelson; and 

scheduled to be commissioned in mid-June 1969.



	Once completed, MANITOWOC will join the Pacific Fleet 

for duty with Amphibious Force, Pacific Fleet, out of Long 

Beach, Calif.  The second of a new class of landing ship 

tank, she will have greater speed than ships of the earlier 

classes.  Her increased combat vehicular lift and landing 

capability will bolster the strength of amphibious forces in 

the Pacific and will strengthen the resolve of the forces of 

freedom in the continuing struggle to detect and repel 

godless communism in Southeast Asia or elsewhere in the Far 

East, which currently faces the menace of Chinese communism.



	[Commissioned on 24 January 1970, MANITOWOC was 

decommissioned on 30 June 1993.  She was leased to Taiwan on 

10 July 1996, refitted at Newport News, renamed CHUNG HO 

(Hull No. 232), and commissioned into the Taiwanese Navy 

on 8 May 1997.]



Internet Web Sites:

	Naval Vessel Register

		www.nvr.navy.mil/nvrships/details/LST1180.htm

	United States Naval & Shipbuilding Museum

		www.uss-salem.org/worldnav/usa/decom.htm#amph

“Jane’s Fighting Ships, 1999-2000,” p.688





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