Harpers Ferry Class LSD

Harpers Ferry Class LSD (Landing Ship, Dock) – 4 units

LSD-49 – Harpers Ferry – Commissioned: 1995 – №: 1 – Homeport: San Diego

LSD-50 – Carter Hall – Commissioned: 1995 – №: 2 – Homeport: Little Creek

LSD-51 – Oak Hill – Commissioned: 1996 – №: 3 – Homeport: Little Creek

LSD-52 – Pearl Harbor – Commissioned: 1998 – №: 4 – Homeport: San Diego

Displacement: 11,251 tons (light); 16,088 tons (full)

Length: 190 m

Beam: 26 m

Draft: 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 & landing craft carried: 2 LCACs

Complement: 22 officers, 397 enlisted

Marine detachment: 402 + 102 surge

Armament:

2× 25 mm Mark 38 cannons

2× 20 mm Phalanx CIWS mounts

2× Rolling Airframe Missile launchers

6× Browning .50 caliber M2HB machine gun

LPD Flight II

Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) has revised its plan to use the hull form of the San Antonio-class amphibious warship as a candidate for the Navy’s next generation amphibious warship – LX(R).

HII’s new Flight IIA modifies the original LPD-17 design by removing some of the higher end capabilities of the San Antonio and creating a so-called amphibious truck to replace the existing class of aging Whidbey Island and Harpers Ferry 16,000-ton landing ship docks (LSD).