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List Of United States Navy Amphibious Warfare Ships
This is a list of United States Navy amphibious warfare ships. This amphibious warfare ship, type of ship has been in use with the United States Navy, US Navy since World War I. Ship status is indicated as either currently active [A] (including ready reserve), inactive [I], or precommissioning [P]. Ships in the inactive category include only ships in the inactive reserve, ships which have been disposed from US service have no listed status. Ships in the precommissioning category include ships under construction or on order. Historical overview There have been four generations of amphibious warfare ships, with each generation having more capability than the previous: * The first generation simply landed troops and equipment ashore with standard (i.e., non-specialized) boats and barges. These ships are not listed in this article since they were indistinguishable from the troopships and other surface combatants of their day, and as such were not assigned specialized hull classifica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
US Navy 111010-N-KD852-492 The Amphibious Dock Landing Ship USS Pearl Harbor (LSD 52), Front, The Amphibious Assault Ship Makin Island USS Makin Is
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Type C4 Ship
The Type C4-class ship were the largest cargo ships built by the United States Maritime Commission (MARCOM) during World War II. The design was originally developed for the American-Hawaiian Lines in 1941, but in late 1941 the plans were taken over by the MARCOM. Eighty-one ships were built as cargo or troopships in four shipyards: Kaiser Richmond, California (35 ships), Kaiser Vancouver, Washington (20 ships), Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock in Chester, Pennsylvania (20 ships) and Bethlehem Steel Sparrows Point, Maryland (6 ships). All ships were capable of , driven by a single screw steam turbine generating . Among the variations of the design were the . They were followed post-war by thirty-seven of the larger C4-S-1 class, also known as the ''Mariner'' class. List of Type C4 ships file:USS General G.O. Squier (AP-130).jpg, USS ''General G.O. Squier'', a C4-S-A1 General series C4-S-A1 DWT: 14,863. Built by Kaiser Shipyards at Permanente No. 3 in Richmond, California, for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6) Underway In The Gulf Of Mexico, Circa In Early 1998 (NH 107664-KN)
Five ships of the United States Navy have borne the name ''Bonhomme Richard'' or ''Bon Homme Richard'' (), the French language equivalent of " Goodman Richard". The name is in reference to American Founding Father Benjamin Franklin. Franklin was responsible for writing ''Poor Richard's Almanack'', for which the ships have been named, after the French title of the publication. * , formerly ''Duc de Duras'', was a frigate built in France and placed at the disposal of John Paul Jones in 1779. * A ''Bon Homme Richard'' was to have been a ''Wampanoag''-class frigate built at the Washington Navy Yard. Construction was canceled in 1864. * , was an aircraft carrier An aircraft carrier is a warship that serves as a seagoing airbase, equipped with a full-length flight deck and hangar facilities for supporting, arming, deploying and recovering carrier-based aircraft, shipborne aircraft. Typically it is the ... renamed ''Yorktown'' in 1943 prior to launch. * , was an that saw action at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Peleliu
USS ''Peleliu'' (LHA-5) is a of the United States Navy, named for the Battle of Peleliu of World War II. Entering service in 1980, she has been deployed to the Persian Gulf on several occasions, performed an evacuation of U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay following the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo, eruption of Mount Pinatubo, operated with the INTERFET peacekeeping taskforce, participated in Pacific Partnership deployments, and provided assistance following the 2010 Pakistan floods, massive floods in Pakistan in 2010. She was decommissioned in San Diego, California on 31 March 2015. She currently rests, out of commission and in reserve, at NAVSEA Inactive Ships On-site Maintenance Office, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in the inactive reserve in case of further need. Design and construction ''Peleliu'' was originally going to be named USS ''Khe Sanh'', and then USS ''Da Nang''. ''Peleliu''s keel was laid down in 1976 at the Litton Industries Ingalls Shipbuilding company in Pascagoula, Mississi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flight Deck
The flight deck of an aircraft carrier is the surface on which its aircraft take off and land, essentially a miniature airfield at sea. On smaller naval ships which do not have aviation as a primary mission, the landing area for helicopters and other VTOL aircraft is also referred to as the flight deck. The official U.S. Navy term for these vessels is "air-capable ships". Flight decks have been in use upon ships since 1910, the American pilot Eugene Ely being the first individual to take off from a warship. Initially consisting of wooden ramps built over the forecastle of capital ships, a number of battlecruisers, including the British and , the American and , and the Japanese ''Akagi'' and battleship ''Kaga'', were converted to aircraft carriers during the interwar period. The first aircraft carrier to feature a full-length flight deck, akin to the configuration of the modern vessels, was the converted liner which entered service in 1918. The armoured flight deck was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Well Dock
In modern amphibious warfare usage, a well dock or well deck, officially termed a wet well during U.S. Navy instruction when the well deck is flooded for operations, is a hangar-like Deck (ship), deck located at the waterline in the stern of some amphibious warfare ships. By Ballast tank, taking on water the ship can lower its stern, flooding the well deck and allowing vessels such as boats and landing craft, amphibious vehicles, and recovered spacecraft crew capsules to dock within the ship. Evolution of structure and term The structure on the modern naval amphibious ships does not exactly fit the traditional "well deck" definition of a weather, or open deck, that is lower than adjacent decks, surrounded by bulkheads that would, lacking proper drainage, form a catchment for water; however, the structure has its origins in such an exaggerated deep deck on World War II-era tank landing craft (TLC) the British forces were considering. On July 19, 1941, Major R. E. Holloway, Roya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS America (LHA-6) Off Rio De Janeiro In August 2014
USS ''America'' may refer to: * , a 74-gun ship of the line, laid down in 1777, but not launched until 1782 and thereupon given to France * USS ''America'' (IX-41), a 19th-century racing yacht converted for United States naval service during the American Civil War * , originally the German ocean liner SS ''Amerika'', seized by the United States during World War I and used as a troop transport * , a commissioned in 1965 and decommissioned in 1996. Currently the only supercarrier to be expended as a target. * , an awarded for construction in June 2007 and commissioned in 2014 See also * , part of the Civil War "Stone Fleet" deliberately sunk to block the harbor in Charleston, South Carolina; sometimes erroneously referred to as USS ''America'' * , an ocean liner launched in 1939 * , various merchantmen * ''America'' was the name of the Command Module on Apollo 17 Apollo 17 (December 7–19, 1972) was the eleventh and final mission of NASA's Apollo program, the sixth and mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
US Navy 020628-N-3228G-002 USS Tarawa (LHA 1)
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Military Sealift Command
The Military Sealift Command (MSC) is an organization that controls the replenishment and military transport ships of the United States Navy. Military Sealift Command has the responsibility for providing sealift and ocean transportation for all US military services as well as for other government agencies. It first came into existence on 9 July 1949 when the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS) became solely responsible for the United States Department of Defense, Department of Defense's ocean transport needs. The MSTS was renamed the Military Sealift Command in 1970. List of Military Sealift Command ships, Military Sealift Command ships are made up of a core fleet of ships owned by the United States Navy and others under long-term-charter augmented by short-term or voyage-chartered ships. * During a time charter MSC takes control of a merchant ship and operates it for the chartered amount of time. During this time the ship is crewed by civilian mariners and MSC pays for al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Littoral Combat Ship
A littoral combat ship (LCS) is either of two classes of relatively small surface vessels designed for littoral warfare in near-shore operations by the United States Navy. It was "envisioned to be a networked, agile, stealthy surface combatant capable of defeating anti-access and asymmetric threats in the littorals", although their ability to perform these missions in practice has been called into question. Littoral combat ships are comparable to corvettes found in other navies. The and the are the two LCS variants. Each is slightly smaller than the U.S. Navy's earlier but larger than ''Cyclone''-class patrol ships. Each has the capabilities of a small assault transport, including a flight deck and hangar for housing two SH-60 or MH-60 Seahawk helicopters, a stern ramp for operating small boats, and the cargo volume and payload to deliver a small assault force with fighting vehicles to a roll-on/roll-off port facility. Standard armaments include Mk 110 57 mm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auxiliary Ship
An auxiliary ship is a naval ship designed to support combatant ships and other naval operations. Auxiliary ships are not primary combatant vessels, though they may have some limited combat capacity, usually for purposes of self-defense. Auxiliary ships are extremely important for navy, navies of all sizes because if they were not present the primary fleet vessels would be unsupported. Thus, virtually every navy maintains an extensive fleet of auxiliary ships, however, the composition and size of these auxiliary fleets vary depending on the nature of each navy and its primary mission. Smaller coastal navies tend to have smaller auxiliary vessels focusing primarily on littoral and training support roles, while larger blue-water navy, blue-water navies tend to have larger auxiliary fleets comprising longer-range fleet support vessels designed to provide support far beyond territorial waters. Roles Replenishment One of the most direct ways that auxiliary ships support the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
