The Helm Wheel came from the USS Tortuga LSD-26. It was mounted on the
GRAY SHIP DOWN
The decommissioned amphibious warship Tortuga, which survived combat
A Navy spokesman said that either a repair patch failed to hold or a leak
bulkhead of Officers Wardroom on the LSD-46 on her commissioning date.
The in-cased Homeward Bound Pennant and the Plaque below it were donated to the
LSD-46 by CDR. Nelson C, Walton, Commanding Officer of the LSD-26, 1960-62. CDR.
Walton was given the Ship's Crest by his crew members when he left the LSD-26.
The Crest is mounted on a piece of teakwood taken up
from the decks of the "Battleship Wisconsin"
action at Korean beachheads and later as "mother" ship for Navy
raider boats in Vietnam, lists badly at pier 13 on the 32nd Street
Naval Station after taking on water. The 475-foot-long ship recently
had been used as a target vessel in exercises off Point Mugu.
developed in the port stern section of the ship, the apparent victim
of a crippling U.S. missile hit. The ship was being used off
shore as a target by the Pacific Missile Test Center.
