USS Kearsarge (LHD-3)

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The Kearsarge in the Gulf of Aqaba
The Kearsarge in the Gulf of Aqaba
Overview
Order November 20, 1987
Keel laying February 6, 1990
Launch March 26, 1992
1. Period of service flag
Commissioning October 16, 1993
Technical specifications
displacement

40,650  tons

length

257.2 meters

width

33.5 meters

Draft

8.2 meters

crew

104 officers, 1004 sailors, up to 1894 troops

drive

2 propellers, driven by 2 steam turbines; 70,000 wave horsepower

speed

20+ knots

Armament

2 starters RAM , 2 starters Sea Sparrow , various guns

Westland Lynx helicopter lands on the deck of the USS Kearsarge

The USS Kearsarge (LHD-3) is an amphibious assault ship of the United States Navy and belongs to the Wasp class . It is named after the sloop Kearsarge , which in turn was named after Mount Kearsarge in New Hampshire .

history

The ship was commissioned in 1987 and laid down at Ingalls Shipbuilding in early 1990 . After just over two years, the ship was launched and was christened Kearsarge . In October 1993 it was officially put into service with the US Navy.

The first mission after passing the tests took place in 1995 in the Mediterranean. At the end of the mission, the pilot Scott O'Grady was rescued from the Kearsarge . O'Grady was shot down over Bosnia during Operation Deny Flight . In 1997 civilians were evacuated from Freetown , Sierra Leone , followed in 1999 by operations as part of Operation Allied Force (combat operations ) and Operation Shining Hope (humanitarian operations for refugees in Albania).

An initial overhaul was carried out at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard during the early months of 2002 . In 2003 the ship sailed in the Persian Gulf during Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom . In 2004 and 2005 the next missions followed as part of the war on terror , the Kearsarge relocated to the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden . On August 19, 2005, while the ship was in the port of Aqaba in Jordan , the Kearsarge and the USS Ashland (LSD-48) were attacked with missiles, which the ships missed.

In 2007 the Kearsarge was again the focus of an Expeditionary Strike Group . In December the ship took part in a relief mission for Bangladesh . The 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) was on board at this time . In May 2008 she took part in Fleet Week in New York as a lead ship with the cruisers USS Leyte Gulf (CG 55) and USS Monterey (CG 61) , the destroyers USS The Sullivans (DDG 68) and USS Nitze (DDG-94) as well as two frigates and a lubricator assigned to the Canadian Navy and a cutter assigned to the United States Coast Guard . In August 2010, the Kearsarge was relocated to bring relief supplies to the regions affected by the flood disaster in Pakistan .

In March 2011, the Kearsarge was relocated to the Mediterranean with the USS Ponce (LPD-15) to strengthen the US presence during the unrest in Libya .

At the beginning of April 2013, the ship was withdrawn from the Mediterranean area and moved through the Suez Canal towards the Arabian Sea. It has not been established whether the transfer of the USS Kearsage was related to the tensions on the Korean Peninsula .

In 2017, the Kearsarge got ready to support disaster relief after Hurricane Harvey in Texas . Since this aid was not requested, it was able to help with disaster relief after Hurricanes Irma and Maria in the US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico .

Trivia

During the passage of the ship through the Suez Canal , the crew took a time-lapse photo and later made it public.

Web links

Commons : USS Kearsarge  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rocket Attacks Miss US Navy Ships on navy.mil (Engl.)
  2. ↑ Two US warships pass the Suez Canal with a course for Libya on de.rian.ru
  3. ↑ USS Kearsarge and USS Oak Hill to Support Hurricane Harvey Relief. United States Navy , August 30, 2017, accessed October 15, 2017 .
  4. ^ Dan Lamothe: Navy sending another combat ship to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico. In: The Virginian Pilot. September 29, 2017, accessed September 30, 2017 .
  5. ^ Hurricane "Maria": Aid for Puerto Rico rolls on. In: The press . September 29, 2017. Retrieved September 30, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Courtney Mabeus: USS Oak Hill returning to Virginia Beach after helping with hurricane relief. In: pilotonline.com. The Virginian-Pilot, October 26, 2017, accessed October 30, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Time-lapse recording of a passage through the Suez Canal on Spiegel-Online