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Name: | Wasp class |
Builders: | Ingalls Shipbuilding |
Operators: | United States Navy |
Preceded by: | Tarawa class |
Succeeded by: | America class |
Cost: | Roughly $1.5 billion[1] |
In commission: | 1989–present |
Completed: | 8 |
Active: | 7 (one inactive due to fire damage) |
General characteristics | |
Type: | Landing helicopter dock (LHD) amphibious assault ship |
Displacement: | 40,500 long tons (41,150 t) full load |
Length: | 843 ft (257 m) |
Beam: | 104 ft (31.8 m) |
Draft: | 27 ft (8.1 m) |
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Speed: | 22 knots (41 km/h; 25 mph) |
Range: | 9,500 nautical miles (17,600 km; 10,900 mi) at 18 kn (33 km/h; 21 mph) |
Well deck dimensions: | 266-by-50-foot (81 by 15.2 m) by 28-foot (8.5 m) high |
Boats & landing craft carried: |
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Troops: | 1,687 troops (plus 184 surge) Marine Detachment |
Complement: | 66 officers, 1,004 enlisted[2] |
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Aviation facilities: | Hangar deck |
Name | Hull number | Laid down | Launched | Commissioned | Status |
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Wasp | LHD-1 | 30 May 1985 | 4 August 1987 | 29 July 1989 | Active in service |
Essex | LHD-2 | 20 March 1989 | 23 February 1991 | 17 October 1992 | Active in service |
Kearsarge | LHD-3 | 6 February 1990 | 26 March 1992 | 16 October 1993 | Active in service |
Boxer | LHD-4 | 18 April 1991 | 13 August 1993 | 11 February 1995 | Active in service |
Bataan | LHD-5 | 22 June 1994 | 15 March 1996 | 20 September 1997 | Active in service |
Bonhomme Richard | LHD-6 | 18 April 1995 | 14 March 1997 | 15 August 1998 | Active in service |
Iwo Jima | LHD-7 | 12 December 1997 | 4 February 2000 | 30 June 2001 | Active in service |
Makin Island | LHD-8 | 14 February 2004 | 22 September 2006 | 24 October 2009 | Active in service |
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