Due to the on-going coronavirus pandemic, the June 27 NAS Pensacola, Fla., commissioning ceremony for the future USS Tripoli (LHA-7) has been scrapped. “We had people that were coming from pretty much all over the southeastern United States, and maybe a couple from California, because they had ties to the old Tripoli LPH-10,” retired Rear Adm. Don Quinn, chair of Pensacola’s Tripoli Commissioning Committee, told Sandra Averhart of WUWF radio. “So, in general, the mood is disappointment.” Tripoli was delivered to the Navy on Feb. 28. Plans now are for the ship to defer the pomp and pageantry for an administrative commissioning July 15 in Pascagoula, Miss., where it was built at Ingalls Shipbuilding. (Source: WUWF 06/18/20)
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