Type, class:Â Amphibious Transport Dock (LPD); San Antonio class
Builder:Â Huntington Ingalls Industries, Ingalls Operations, Pascagoula, Mississippi, USA
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STATUS:
Awarded:Â July 27, 2012
Laid down:Â August 2, 2013
Launched:Â February 13, 2016
Commissioned:Â December 14, 2017
IN SERVICE
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Homeport:Â Naval Base San Diego, California
 Namesake: City of Portland, Oregon
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 a NASA mock Orion capsule in the well deck – Pacific Ocean – December 2022
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| USS Portland (LPD 27): USS Portland’s keel was laid down on 2 August 2013, at the Ingalls Shipbuilding yard in Pascagoula, Mississippi. The ship’s sponsor is Bonnie Amos, wife of U.S. Marine Corps Commandant General James Amos. Portland was launched on 13 February 2016, and she was delivered to the Navy on 18 September 2017. She was commissioned on 14 December 2017, but her commissioning ceremony was not held until 21 April 2018, when she was in the city of Portland for the festivities. The commissioning ceremony was protested by a number of local anti-war groups, who opposed a warship being named after the city. The Laser Weapon System (LaWS) was moved from ex-USS Ponce to Portland for indefinite testing. It was installed at the end of 2018. |
| Portland  … is the largest and most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon and the seat of Multnomah County. It is a major port in the Willamette Valley region of the Pacific Northwest, at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers. As of 2017, Portland had an estimated population of 647,805, making it the 26th-largest city in the United States, and the second-most populous in the Pacific Northwest (after Seattle).[ Approximately 2.4 million people live in the Portland metropolitan statistical area (MSA), making it the 25th most populous MSA in the United States. Its Combined Statistical Area (CSA) ranks 18th-largest with a population of around 3.2 million. Approximately 60% of Oregon’s population resides within the Portland metropolitan area. Named after Portland, Maine, the Oregon settlement began to be populated in the 1830s near the end of the Oregon Trail. Its water access provided convenient transportation of goods, and the timber industry was a major force in the city’s early economy. At the turn of the 20th century, the city had a reputation as one of the most dangerous port cities in the world, a hub for organized crime and racketeering. After the city’s economy experienced an industrial boom during World War II, its hard-edged reputation began to dissipate. Beginning in the 1960s, Portland became noted for its growing progressive political values, earning it a reputation as a bastion of counterculture. source: wikipedia |