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landing ship dock
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A ship designed to transport and launch loaded amphibious craft and/or amphibian vehicles with their crews and embarked personnel and/or equipment and to render limited docking and repair services to small ships and craft. Also called LSD.
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The squadron transferred the rescued mariners to the British dock landing ship Cardigan Bay (L 3009) the next day, which subsequently returned them to the Iraqi navy.
The year in review 2008 by Evans, Mark L. / Naval Aviation News
Navy photo by MC3 John Suits [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Sailors stow a fuel hose after fueling an aircraft aboard the amphibious dock landing ship USS Carter Hall (LSD-50).
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The other two vessels commonly are the transport dock ship (LSD-class) and the dock landing ship (LPD-class).
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