USS Harpers Ferry (LSD-49)

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USS Harpers Ferry prepares to moor in Subic Bay, Philippines (Feb. 17, 2006).
Career (US) United States Navy Ensign
Ordered: 17 June 1988
Laid down: 15 April 1991
Launched: 16 January 1993
Commissioned: 7 January 1995
Status: Active in service as of 2007
Homeport: FA Sasebo, Japan
General characteristics
Displacement: 11,604 tons (light)
16,601 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: Nation's Battle Cry

USS Harpers Ferry (LSD-49) is a Harpers Ferry-class dock landing ship of the United States Navy. She was named for Harpers Ferry, Virginia (in present-day West Virginia), a significant location during the Civil War.

Harpers Ferry was laid down on 15 April 1991, by the Avondale Shipyards, New Orleans, Louisiana; launched on 16 January 1993; and commissioned on 7 January 1995.

On 1 September 2002, Harpers Ferry relieved Germantown (LSD-42) as a forward-deployed naval unit in FA Sasebo, Japan.

The USS Harpers Ferry is commanded by CDR David L. Bossert, forward deployed at Sasebo, Japan, and assigned to Amphibious Group 1.


This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.

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