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USS Mesa Verde
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| Awarded: | 15 February 2000 |
| Laid down: | 25 February 2003 |
| Fate: | Under construction |
| General Characteristics |
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| Displacement: | 24433 tons light, 24433 tons full |
| Length: | 208.4 meters (684 feet) overall, 201.4 meters (661 feet) waterline |
| Beam: | 32 meters (105 feet) extreme, 29.5 meters (97 feet) waterline |
| Draft: | 7 meters (23 feet) |
| Complement: | 32 officers, 364 men |
USS Mesa Verde (LPD-19), a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock, is the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado. The contract to build her was awarded on 15 February 2000 to Northrop Grumman Ship Systems of Pascagoula, Mississippi, and her keel was laid down on 25 February 2003. She is scheduled to be launched in the summer of 2004, receive the first increment of her precommissioning crew in the autumn of 2004, and be commissioned in the autumn of 2006.
References
This article contains information from the Naval Vessel Registry and
various other US Navy Web sites.
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