The second USS La Salle was built as a Raleigh-class amphibious transport dock and entered service with the United States Navy in 1964. La Salle was named for the city in Illinois that was in turn nam
USS La Salle (AGF-3) underway in the Persian Gulf in 1990
USS La Salle (Left) and USS Coronado (right) moored in Bahrain in 1980. Coronado was relieving LaSalle as the flagship for the Commander, Middle East Force (now called United States Naval Forces Central Command). Due to the nature of U.S. flagships individually covering large geographic areas, it was a rare occurrence for both ships to be in the same port.
A Maltese shipyard worker heads home on his bicycle after a day's work on USS La Salle in Cospicua.
The Sixth Fleet is a numbered fleet of the United States Navy operating as part of United States Naval Forces Europe and Africa. The Sixth Fleet is headquartered at Naval Support Activity Naples, Ital
USS La Salle (AGF-3)
…international waters in the Middle East and Europe. The vessel served as a command ship for Joint Task Force Middle East and as flagship for the Sixth Fleet. In 2005 the ship was decommissioned and sunk as a target ship off the Atlantic coast of the United States in 2007. Her keel was laid down by New York…
The U.S. Sixth Fleet in 1954
U.S. ships in Sicily, 1965
Then newly elected president of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, tours the U.S. Navy's Sixth Fleet command and control ship USS Mount Whitney escorted by Commander, Task Force 65, Captain Tom Rowden, right, while the frigate USS Carr moves alongside the ship. Making her first ever visit aboard a navy vessel, President Johnson-Sirleaf visited Mount Whitney the day after her inauguration to thank the crew for making the journey in support of her country's inaugural ceremonies.