USS Acadia
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Acadia (AD-42) was a Yellowstone-class destroyer tender in the service of the United States Navy, named after Acadia National Park. She was inactive and in reserve after her 1994 decommissioning at Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility (NISMF), Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, under maintenance category B, until sunk off Guam during a live-fire training exercise (Valiant Shield) on 20 September 2010. She was the first ship to house a wartime mixed-sex crew and was unofficially nicknamed "The Love Boat" in the 1991 Persian Gulf War after 36 women (10% of women in the crew) became pregnant during deployment.[2]
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Name | USS Acadia |
Ordered | 11 March 1976 |
Builder | National Steel and Shipbuilding Company, San Diego |
Laid down | 14 February 1978 |
Launched | 28 July 1979 |
Commissioned | 6 June 1981 |
Decommissioned | 16 December 1994 |
Stricken | 13 December 2007[1] |
Fate | Sunk as target 20 September 2010 |
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Class and type | Yellowstone-class destroyer tender |
Displacement | 21,916 long tons (22,268 t) |
Length | 641 ft 10 in (195.63 m) |
Beam | 85 ft (26 m) |
Draft | 24 ft (7.3 m) |
Propulsion | 2 boilers, steam turbines, single shaft, 20,000 shp (14,914 kW) |
Speed | 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
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