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Career |
Awarded: | 17 December 1996 |
Laid down: | 9 December 2000 |
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: | 33 officers, 364 men |
USS San Antonio (LPD-17), the
lead ship of
her class of
amphibious transport dock, is the first ship of the
United States Navy to be named for
the city in
Texas. The contract to build her was awarded on
17 December 1996 to
Northrop Grumman Ship Systems[?] of
New Orleans, Louisiana
and her keel was laid down on
9 December 2000. She was
launched on
12 July 2003 and christened on
19 July. She is scheduled to receive the first increment of her precommissioning crew in October
2003, and be
commissioned in November
2004.
This article contains information from the
Naval Vessel Registry and
various other
US Navy Web sites.