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  • 70USS Fort McHenry (LSD-43) — is a Whidbey Island class dock landing ship of the United States Navy. She was named for Fort McHenry, in Baltimore, Maryland, the 1814 defense of which inspired The Star Spangled Banner . Fort McHenry was laid down on 10 June 1983, by Lockheed… …

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