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USS Gunston Hall (LSD-44)
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| Ordered: | 21 November 1983 |
| Laid down: | 26 May 1986 |
| Launched: | 27 June 1987 |
| Commissioned: | 22 April 1989 |
| Status: | Active in service as of 2007 |
| Homeport: | NAB Little Creek, Virginia |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 11,332 tons (light) 16,581 tons (full) |
| Length: | 610 ft overall (185.9 m) |
| Beam: | 84 ft (25.6 m) |
| Draught: | 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: | 4 LCACs or 2 LCUs |
| Complement: | 22 officers, 391 enlisted Marine detachment: 402 + 102 surge |
| Armament: | 2 × 25 mm Mk 38 cannons 2 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS mounts 2 × Rolling Airframe Missile 6 × .50 caliber M2HB machine guns |
| Motto: | Defending The Constitution |
USS Gunston Hall (LSD-44) is a Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship of the United States Navy. She was the second Navy ship to be named for Gunston Hall, the Mason Neck, Virginia estate of George Mason, one of Virginia's outstanding Revolutionary figures, and "Father of the Bill of Rights".
Gunston Hall was laid down on 26 May 1986, by the Avondale Shipyards, New Orleans, La.; launched on 27 June 1987; and commissioned on 22 April 1989.
As of 2005, Gunston Hall is homeported at NAB Little Creek, Virginia, and assigned to Amphibious Group 2 of the Atlantic Fleet.
It was announced on October 9, 2006 in the Halifax Herald in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada that the Canadian Navy will borrow the 186-meter amphibious assault ship for a brief period, and will pull it into CFB Halifax in early November, 2006. About 150 Canadian soldiers from CFB Valcartier, along with their light armoured vehicles and G-wagons, will board the vessel and start training to storm beaches in landing craft, much like troops did in the Second World War. The U.S. military is providing mentoring and support during the operation.[1]
See USS Gunston Hall for other ships of the same name.
This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
- USS Gunston Hall official website
- navsource.org: USS Gunston Hall
- nvr.navy.mil: USS Gunston Hall
- navysite.de: USS Gunston Hall
- Gunston Hall Plantation website
- LSD-44 Personnel Roster at HullNumber.com
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