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- Code Number:
- MYNV17P04_03
- Title:
- USS Kearsarge (LHD-3), Wasp-class amphibious assault ship
- Namesake: USS Kearsarge (1861), a Civil War Sloop
Builder: Ingalls Shipbuilding
Laid down: 6 February 1990
Launched: 26 March 1992
Sponsored by: Alma Powell, wife of Gen. Colin Powell
Christened: 16 May 1992
Commissioned: 16 October 1993
Homeport: Norfolk, Virginia
Identification: LHD 3
Motto: Proud, Trustworthy, Bold
Status: in active service, as of 2013
Displacement: 40,500 long tons (41,100 t) full load
Length: 844 feet (257 m)
Beam: 106 feet (32 m)
Draft: 27 feet (8.2 m)
Propulsion: 2 geared steam turbines, 70,000 shp (52 MW)
2 boilers, 600 psi (4.1 MPa)
2 shafts
Speed: 24 knots (28 mph; 44 km/h)
Boats & landing Craft carried: 3 LCAC (LCAC)
Troops: 1,893 Marines
Complement: 104 Officers, 1,004 Sailors
Armament: ? 2 Sea Sparrow missile systems
? 2 Rolling Airframe Missile systems
? 3 Phalanx CIWS
? 8 .50 BMG machine guns
aircraft carried: VMM-266 REIN approx. 22 Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey
6 AV-8B Harrier II V/STOL attack jets
6 SH-60F/HH-60H ASW helicopters - Keywords:
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