Just 2 weeks to cross to the other side
USS Peleliu was commissioned on 3 May 1980, with Captain T. P. Scott in command.
The USS Peleliu immediately steamed southwards, and then she transited the Panama Canal to the Pacific Ocean.
She crossed the Equator for the first time on 27 May 1980, setting a new record for time between an American warship's commissioning and her crossing over into the Southern Hemisphere.
She was decommissioned March 31st 2015 and now rest next to the USS Tarawa in the Navy reserve fleet Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
