The Gosper was a Victory ship built in Portland and then converted to a hospital ship and sent to the Pacific in 1945 the wake of the invasion of Okinawa. After the war, she served in the ...

The commissioning of the San Antonio-class amphibious transport vessel USS Portland is set for Saturday and will be held at the Port of Portland's Terminal 2, where all 25,000 tons of it is ...

The second USS Portland (LSD 37), an amphibious landing ship commissioned in 1970, was named after both Portland, Maine and Oregon. She completed 14 deployments to the Caribbean, Mediterranean and ...

The Portland Democratic Socialists of America planned the demonstration after learning that the ship would be named USS Portland, with April 21 being declared by Mayor Ted Wheeler as "USS Portland ...

The to-be-commissioned San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS Portland (LPD 27) transits Guantanamo Bay during a brief fuel stop. The ship is currently on its way to home port in San ...

William Thomas Generous talked about his book Sweet Pea at War: A History of USS Portland, published by University Press of Kentucky. Th… read more William Thomas Generous talked about his book ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Mary Doughty clearly remembers christening the USS Portland when she was a girl in 1932. That was a happy occasion. She also remembers feeling sad the last time she saw the ...