USS Bristol County (LST-1198)
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USS Bristol County (LST-1198) was a United States Navy
United States Navy
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 Newport class
Newport class tank landing ship
Newport-class tank-landing ships are an improved class of American tank-landing ship , intended to provide substantial advantages over their World War II-era predecessors...

 tank landing ship.

Bristol County (LST-1198) was named after counties in Massachusetts
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 and Rhode Island
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. She was laid down on 13 February 1971 at San Diego, California
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, by the National Steel and Shipbuilding Company
National Steel and Shipbuilding Company
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; launched on 4 December 1971; sponsored by Mrs. Robert Lee Town-send; and commissioned on 5 August 1972, Comdr. Donald L. Waggoner in command.

Following commissioning, Bristol County was assigned to the Amphibious Force, Pacific Fleet, with the home port of Long Beach. In the years that followed, the tank landing ship alternated amphibious training operations off the west coast of the United States with periodic, sustained deployments to the western Pacific. She maintained this cycle into 1980.

At some point between 1980 and 1984 the Bristol County's home port became San Diego's 32nd Steet Naval Station; mooring at the southmost piers 10, 11, 12 and rarely pier 13.

A story was circulated among the engineering crew that during extended operations in severe storm conditions and rough seas in the Gulf of Alaska (before 1984), the hull began to crack on the port side visible on the 3rd deck from the excape trunk of main control. Shoring was used to control any serious flooding.

Fate

Bristol County was decommissioned and struck 29 July 1994 and disposed of through the Security Assistance Program (SAP), transferred, cash sale, ex-US fleet hull foreign military sale case number assigned, to Morocco
Morocco
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as BDC Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah on 16 August 1994.

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