USS New Orleans (LPD-18)
,_transits_through_San_Diego_Bay_prior_to_arriving_in_her_new_homeport_of_San_Diego.jpg) The New Orleans on San Diego Bay |
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| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Order | December 18, 1998 |
| Keel laying | October 14, 2002 |
| Launch | November 20, 2004 |
| 1. Period of service |
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| Commissioning | March 5, 2007 |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement |
fully loaded 24,900 ts |
| length |
208.05 m |
| width |
31.9 m |
| Draft |
7.0 m |
| crew |
28 officers, 332 men, up to 800 Marines |
| drive |
2 propellers, four diesel engines; 41,000 wave horsepower |
| speed |
22+ knots |
| Armament |
2 guns 30 mm, 2 launchers for anti-aircraft missiles |
The USS New Orleans (LPD-18) is a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship of the United States Navy . It bears the name of the city of New Orleans , Louisiana . The ship is used to transport a fully equipped battalion of marines and to land them with maritime transport.
history
The contract to build the ship was signed on December 18, 1998 with Northrop Grumman Ship Systems and the keel was laid on October 14, 2002 at Avondale Shipyard . The launch was on November 20, 2004 and the christening was performed by Carolyn Shelton, daughter of General Henry H. Shelton , a former chairman of the United Chiefs of Staff . The Navy received the New Orleans from the shipyard on December 22, 2006, although the ship was still partially unfinished after serious defects during construction.
The New Orleans was also unserviceable on March 5th in its named city. She was then transferred through the Panama Canal to San Diego , California, to join the Pacific Fleet . On May 3, she reached her home port, Naval Base San Diego , where she was assigned to her association, the Amphibious Squadron Five .
In August 2008, the Board of Inspection and Survey of the US Navy checked the ship's fitness for use and continued to find serious defects. The result was devastating for the shipyard. The ship is unable to complete its mission. There are material problems in the well deck and in storage rooms, vehicle ramps are not working and the condition of the crew cabins is not satisfactory. In addition, the drive is unreliable, the weapon systems failed after a test shot.
Another test at the end of 2008 turned out to be more promising: New Orleans carried out test drives with the combat group around the USS Boxer (LHD-4) and parts of the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit in December . With the Boxer , the ship relocated for the first time in early 2009. On this voyage, the New Orleans collided with the nuclear submarine USS Hartford (SSN-768) in the Strait of Hormuz on March 20 . A New Orleans fuel tank was damaged and around 95,000 liters of diesel ran into the sea. In addition, three departments of the New Orleans were flooded. 15 sailors were slightly injured on board the Hartford . Both warships called the port of Mina Salman in Bahrain under their own power to investigate the damage more closely. At the end of April, the New Orleans was docked at Arab Shipbuilding and Repair Yard to have the damage repaired. The ship undocked again in mid-May.
In June 2010, the three-month exercise Southern Partnership Station with the Central and South American navies began for New Orleans . In November it was in the San Diego shipyard for overhaul for three months. At the end of 2011, the ship moved to the side of the USS Makin Island (LHD-8) in the Pacific.
In autumn 2019 she moved from her previous home port of San Diego to her new base in Sasebo , Japan , where she joined the 7th fleet on December 1, 2019.
See also
Web links
- Official site of New Orleans (English)
- USS New Orleans in the Naval Vessel Register (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Navy Times: InSurv: LPD 18's fighting ability 'degraded' ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (engl.)
- ↑ Navy Times: Hormuz collision has sub, amphib out of action ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (engl.)
- ↑ USN deploys USS New Orleans and USS America to Japan, Janes, December 6, 2019
