USS Anchorage (LPD-23)
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| Name: | Anchorage |
| Namesake: | Anchorage, Alaska |
| Awarded: | 1 June 2006 |
| Builder: | Avondale Shipyard |
| Laid down: | 24 September 2007 |
| Launched: | 12 February 2011 [1] |
| Christened: | 14 May 2011 [2] |
| Acquired: | 17 September 2012 [3] |
| Commissioned: | 4 May 2013 [4] |
| Homeport: | San Diego, CA |
| Status: | in active service, as of 2015 |
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| Class & type: | San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock |
| Displacement: | 25,000 tons full |
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| Draft: | 7 m (23 ft) |
| Propulsion: | Four Colt-Pielstick diesel engines, two shafts, 40,000 hp (30 MW) |
| Speed: | 22 kn (41 km/h) |
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| Capacity: | 699 (66 officers, 633 enlisted); surge to 800 total |
| Complement: | 32 officers, 364 enlisted |
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| Aircraft carried: | Four CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters or two MV-22 tilt rotor aircraft may be launched or recovered simultaneously |
USS Anchorage (LPD-23), a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock, is the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Anchorage, Alaska.
History
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Anchorage's keel was laid down on 24 September 2007, at the Avondale Shipyard in New Orleans, Louisiana, then owned by Northrop Grumman Ship Systems. The ship was launched on 12 February 2011.[1] She was christened two months later, on 14 May — the first ship christened by Huntington Ingalls Industries since Northrop Grumman spun off its shipbuilding divisions as a separate company.[2] The ship's sponsor is Annette Conway, wife of former Marine Corps Commandant General James T. Conway.[5] The ship was formally delivered and accepted by the US Navy on 17 September 2012.[3] Anchorage was commissioned 04 May 2013, in her namesake city.[4]
Voyages and exercises
In 2014, sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit (EODMU) 1 and divers from New Zealand, the Netherlands, Canada, Japan, Australia and Chile recover their boats into the well deck of the amphibious transport dock USS Anchorage after conducting night dive exercises off the coast of San Diego during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC).[6]
In early August 2014, Anchorage participated in Underway Recovery Test 2, rehearsing scenarios for recovering an Orion space capsule. On 5 December 2014, Anchorage served as the recovery vessel for Orion's Exploration Flight Test 1.[7][8]
References
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- ↑ Jason Rhian, Orion Sails Through Successful Test With Aid Of Navy’s U.S.S. Anchorage, Spaceflight Insider, 8 August 2014
- ↑ Amphibious Warship USS Anchorage Assists in NASA Orion Testing, Amphibious Warship Industrial Base Coalition, 5 August 2014
- This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. The entry can be found here.
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