visits. 2015 Gunston Hall experienced an onboard fire on 3 March 2015 while the ship was undergoing a maintenance availability in Portsmouth, Virginia. The Portsmouth Fire Department responded, and the fire was extinguished approximately three hours later. 2018 After completing the Board of Inspection and Survey in May, Gunston Hall departed Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek–Fort Story on 18 June 2018 to participate in naval exercises Southern Seas 2018 and UNITAS 2018. The ship completed multiple port calls to Naval Station Mayport, Florida, Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba, Roatán, Honduras, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Santa Marta, Colombia and Cartagena, Colombia. After a brief return to Little Creek–Fort Story in order to resupply and embark the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, she departed for Reykjavik, Iceland, along with and , to participate in Exercise Trident Juncture 2018. After a port call in Portsmouth, England, the ship returned home on 4 December 2018. 2020 In December 2020 the U.S. Navy's Report to Congress on the Annual Long-Range Plan for Construction of Naval Vessels stated that the ship was planned to be placed out of commission in reserve in 2023. 2022 On 13 May 2022, Gunston Hall took part in a PASSEX training with the Finnish and Swedish navies in the northern Baltic Sea, and in June she took part in the BALTOPS 2022 exercise. References External links Whidbey Island-class dock landing ships Cold War amphibious warfare vessels of the United States Amphibious warfare vessels of the United States Ships built in Bridge City, Louisiana 1987 ships 2010 Haiti earthquake relief