High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Originally to be named the Khe Sanh and then Da Nang, the Peleliu was laid in 1976 at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi, launched on 25 November 1978, sponsored by Peggy Hayward (wife of then-CNO Thomas B. Hayward), and commissioned 3 May 1980, with Captain T. P. Scott in command. The Peleliu immediately headed south, transited the Panama Canal, and then crossing the Equator on 27 May, setting a new record for time between commissioning and entrance into the Southern Hemisphere. Next, she proceeded to the port of Long Beach, California.

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