The vessel was en route to an amphibious landing exercise in the gulf when the steam valve burst.
The maneuvers, which involve 680 men, include aerial assault and amphibious landing exercises.
In the 1930s, the British Army carried out divisional-sized amphibious landing exercises.
Most of our Caribbean forces are conducting an amphibious landing exercise on Jamaica.
"A signal from one of our attack subs returning from the Jamaican landing exercise just came across my desk."
The Navy is in fact conducting an amphibious landing exercise off Jamaica.
In January 1957, she joined a landing exercise at Camp Pendleton.
In May 1959 she joined a landing exercise at Camp Pendleton.
Local landing exercises and an availability took her into October, when the Cuban missile crisis erupted.
The missile system was going to be completed by the time the landing exercises were over.