USS Ponce (LPD-15), an Austin-class amphibious transport dock, is the only ship of the United States Navy that is named for Ponce in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, which in turn was named after the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon, the first governor of Puerto Rico and European discoverer of Florida.

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  • Vito Germana October 5, 2018 at 7:37pm

    I signed on to the Ponce in October 1975 in Rotterdam, and signed off in December of 1976.  I completed the North Atlantic Cruise 1975, and then the Med Cruise in 1976.  We were extended for about 3 extra months to be on site to evacuate Lebanon.  We were scheduled to be part of the NY Bicentennial Display for the 4th of July down the Hudson River.  Instead we escorted Refugees to Naples. 

  • Robert Welch August 23, 2014 at 10:16am

    The Ponce was my last ship I retired from her on 1 October 1996

  • ray w fonner August 6, 2014 at 8:01pm

    i was tad on the ponce when the kennedy cv67 sent me to portsmith hosp and left for fla. met some nice guys there back in about 76-77

  • Donald Lee Basped August 30, 2013 at 7:31am

    I was with VC-6 UAV detachment and made a cruise to the Med during the Kosovo conflict and the earthquake that hit Turkey.

  • Matthew Thomas January 11, 2013 at 3:17pm

    When I see the picture of this ship memorie of my father com flooding back to me. I miss him so very much

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