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Career |
Awarded: | 15 February 2000 |
Laid down: | 25 February 2003 |
Fate: | Under construction |
General Characteristics |
Displacement: | 24433 tons light, 24433 tons full |
Length: | 208.4 meters (684 feet) overall, 201.4 meters (661 feet) waterline |
Beam: | 32 meters (105 feet) extreme, 29.5 meters (97 feet) waterline |
Draft: | 7 meters (23 feet) |
Complement: | 32 officers, 364 men |
USS Mesa Verde (LPD-19), a
San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock, is the first ship of the
United States Navy to be named for
Mesa Verde National Park[?] in
Colorado. The contract to build her was awarded on
15 February 2000 to
Northrop Grumman Ship Systems[?] of
Pascagoula, Mississippi, and her keel was laid down on
25 February 2003. She is scheduled to be
launched in the summer of
2004, receive the first increment of her precommissioning crew in the autumn of
2004, and be
commissioned in the autumn of
2006.
This article contains information from the
Naval Vessel Registry and
various other
US Navy Web sites.