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USS Carter Hall (LSD-50)
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| Ordered: | 22 December 1989 |
| Laid down: | 11 November 1991 |
| Launched: | 2 October 1993 |
| Commissioned: | 30 September 1995 |
| Status: | Active in service as of 2007 |
| Homeport: | NAB Little Creek, Virginia |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 11,471 tons (light) 16,360 tons (full) |
| Length: | 610 ft (185.9 m) |
| Beam: | 84 ft (25.6 m) |
| Draft: | 21 ft (6.4 m) |
| Propulsion: | 4 Colt Industries, 16-cylinder diesel engines, 2 shafts, 33,000 shp (25 MW) |
| Speed: | 20+ knots (37+ km/h) |
| Boats and landing craft carried: | 2 LCACs |
| Complement: | 22 officers, 397 enlisted Marine detachment: 402 + 102 surge |
| Armament: | 2 × 25 mm Mk 38 cannons 2 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS mounts 2 × Rolling Airframe Missile launchers 6 × .50 caliber M2HB machine guns |
| Motto: | Working for Peace, Ready for War |
USS Carter Hall (LSD-50) is a Harpers Ferry-class dock landing ship of the United States Navy. She was the second Navy ship to be named for Carter Hall, an estate near Winchester, Virginia, built in the 1790s.
Carter Hall was laid down on 11 November 1991, by the Avondale Shipyards, New Orleans, La.; launched on 2 October 1993; and commissioned on 30 September 1995.
Carter Hall and her plankowner crew departed on their first six-month Mediterranean deployment on 29 April 1997. Her crew completed its UNITAS/WATC deployment in November.
The mission of the Landing Ship Dock (LSD) is to transport and launch loaded amphibious craft and vehicles and crews and embarked personnel in an Amphibious Assault. LSDs also render limited docking and repair service to small ships and craft and act as the Primary Control Ship (PCS) during amphibious assaults.
Carter Hall is a Cargo Variant (CV) of the Whidbey Island-class. A significant difference between the two classes is that Carter Hall's well deck has been shortened from 440 feet (134 m) to 180 feet (55 m). This provides embarked Marines with added vehicle and cargo storage areas. The well deck can hold two Landing Craft Air Cushions (LCAC) and a variety of landing craft and tracked amphibious assault vehicles. Carter Hall's two-spot flight deck can land and service any helicopter in the Navy and Marine Corps inventory.
As of 2005, Carter Hall is homeported at NAB Little Creek, Virginia, and assigned to Amphibious Group 2. In June 2007, the Carter Hall, operating off the coast of Somalia, confronted pirates who had captured a Danish merchant ship, firing a shot across the bow of the Danish ship in an attempt to bring about the pirates' surrender. [1]
The USS Carter Hall (LSD-50) engaged pirates after they boarded a Danish ship and destroyed 3 small boats being towed behind the captured vessel, but was unable to pursue after the vessel entered Somalian waters.[1]
- USS Carter Hall official website
- navsource.org: USS Carter Hall
- nvr.navy.mil: USS Carter Hall
- navysite.de: USS Carter Hall
- LSD-50 Personnel Roster at HullNumber.com
This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
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