LaMoure County, North Dakota
LaMoure County is a county in the U.S. state of North Dakota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 4,093. Its county seat is LaMoure.
LaMoure County Courthouse in LaMoure
USS La Moure County (LST-1194)
USS La Moure County (LST-1194) was the sixteenth of twenty Newport-class tank landing ship of the United States Navy (USN) which replaced the traditional bow door-design tank landing ships (LSTs). The second vessel named after a county in North Dakota, the LST was constructed by National Steel and Shipbuilding Company of San Diego, California. The vessel was launched and was commissioned into the USN in 1971. La Moure County alternated deployments in the Caribbean Sea with those to the Mediterranean Sea. During the Gulf War, La Moure County transported elements of the 4th Marine Expeditionary Brigade to the Persian Gulf. In 2000, the LST was taking part in a training exercise off Chile when the vessel ran aground. Considered beyond repair, La Moure County was decommissioned that year and towed out to sea in 2001 and sunk as a target ship.
USS La Moure County (LST-1194) underway
La Moure County at anchor in Cifuncho Bay, where the ship lay from 12 September to 28 October 2000
Ex-La Moure County as seen here during the first phase of the SINKEX on 10 July 2001
Ex-La Moure County overhead view showing the ship later in the SINKEX exercise, burning after several missile hits