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USS Durham

United States Navy amphibious cargo ship

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

USS Durham (LKA-114) was a Charleston-class amphibious cargo ship in service with the United States Navy from 1969 to 1994. She was sunk as a target in August 2020.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “USS Durham” as united States Navy amphibious cargo ship. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Durham, United and States.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1969, 1994, 2020—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Durham, United and States providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “USS Durham”, the useful work is to connect “united States Navy amphibious cargo ship” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 22, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1969, 1994 and 2020.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “USS Durham” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.