Talk:USS San Marcos (LSD-25)

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I'd bet the first USS San Marcos was renamed after the town in Texas (not a masonry fort in Florida) as it was typical that state-named vessels got renamed for cities/towns in the same state (USS New York - USS Rochester, USS Maryland - USS Frederick, etc.) when the Navy wanted to free-up the state name for a new battleship. jmdeur 19:42 21 April 2008 (UTC)


 * You've got a point, though I don't see anything that distinguishes San Marcos, Texas, beyond a vague claim that "The San Marcos River area is considered by many archaeologists to be the oldest, continuously inhabited area in the Northern Hemisphere." Well, we can tweak the wording on this one so it doesn't claim to be the second named for the fort.
 * —WWoods (talk) 02:28, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

LSD-25
how comes she is also called LSD-25? is this a nickname or something...? --Diogenes2000 (talk) 22:31, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

Disputed 1970 hurricane damage
User RetiredNavy had included in the main article the following explanation for their edit of 01:56, 27 October 2017; I moved it here where it belongs: A previous version of the above paragraph stated "During the return to Little Creek, she was caught in a hurricane and took a 45-degree roll, lost the rear 20-tonne gate and almost went down. Her crew kept her afloat after losing one power plant." This incident DID NOT HAPPEN. Writer was a crew member of the USS San Marcos during this deployment and on board her at this time. I think the original writer was referring to an incident when the USS Austin lost her stern gate during a storm at the time of a landing exercise while in the Mediterranean. See article on USS Austin for more information. DocRuby (talk) 02:08, 27 October 2017 (UTC)