USS Fort Lauderdale (LPD-28)

History
United States
Name: USS Fort Lauderdale[1]
Awarded: 19 December 2016[1]
Builder: Ingalls Shipbuilding
Cost: US$1.793B (FY2016)[2]
Laid down: 13 October 2017[3][4]
Sponsored by: Meredith Berger[3]
Status: Under construction
General characteristics
Class and type: San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock
Displacement: 25,000 tons full
Length:
  • 208.5 m (684.1 ft) overall
  • 201.4 m (660.8 ft) waterline
Beam:
  • 31.9 m (104.7 ft) extreme
  • 29.5 m (96.8 ft) waterline
Draft: 7.0 m (23.0 ft)
Propulsion: Four Colt-Pielstick diesel engines, two shafts, 40,000 hp (29,828 kW)
Speed: 22 knots (41 km/h)
Boats & landing
craft carried:
  • 2 × LCACs (air cushion)
  • or 1 × LCU (conventional)
Capacity: 699 (66 officers, 633 enlisted); surge to 800 total.
Complement: 28 officers, 333 enlisted
Armament:
Aircraft carried: 4 × CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters or 2 × MV-22 tilt rotor aircraft may be launched or recovered simultaneously.

USS Fort Lauderdale (LPD-28) will be the twelfth San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship of the United States Navy. In March 2016, the city of Fort Lauderdale, Florida said that the Navy would be naming LPD-28 in honor of the city.[5] Fort Lauderdale is under construction at Pascagoula, Mississippi by Ingalls Shipbuilding.[6][3]

Design

Fort Lauderdale will feature design improvements developed in connection with the Navy's development of a next-generation dock landing ship, known as the LX(R)-class amphibious warfare ship. The LX(R) is intended to replace current Whidbey Island-class and Harpers Ferry-class dock landing ships.[7]:(Summary) In 2014, the Navy commenced design of LX(R) based on a modified San Antonio-class design.[7]:6 Because this design work is in progress, the Navy has created design innovations and cost-reduction strategies around the San Antonio-class design, and the Navy believes that it can apply these innovations and strategies to Fort Lauderdale, allowing her to be built at reduced cost.[7]:9 The main design features intended to reduce the cost of Fort Lauderdale compared to the San Antonio-class on which she is based are simplified bow works, replacement of the forward and aft composite masts with steel masts, removal of structures from the boat valley, and a stern gate which is open at the top.[3] This will make Fort Lauderdale a "transitional ship" between the current San Antonio-class design and future LX(R) vessels.[7]:9

Fort Lauderdale will incorporate a high temperature superconductor-based mine protection degaussing system built by American Superconductor to reduce the magnetic signature of the ship.[8]

References

  1. 1 2 "Fort Lauderdale (LPD 28)". Naval Vessel Register. Retrieved 15 October 2017.
  2. ↑ O'Rourke, Ronald (8 December 2017). "Navy LX(R) Amphibious Ship Program: Background and Issues for Congress" (PDF). Retrieved 17 April 2018.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "HII Authenticates Keel Of Amphibious Transport Ship Fort Lauderdale - LPD 28". Navy Recognition. 14 October 2017. Retrieved 15 October 2017.
  4. ↑ "Huntington Ingalls Industries Authenticates Keel Of Amphibious Transport Ship Fort Lauderdale (LPD 28)" (Press release). Huntington Ingalls Industries. 13 October 2017. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
  5. ↑ "USS Fort Lauderdale: Same name, different ship". Sun-Sentinel. 9 March 2016.
  6. ↑ "Huntington Ingalls Industries Delivers Amphibious Transport Dock Portland (LPD 27) to U.S. Navy" (Press release). Huntington Ingalls. 18 September 2017. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
  7. 1 2 3 4 O'Rourke, Ronald (27 May 2016). "Navy LX(R) Amphibious Ship Program: Background and Issues for Congress" (PDF). Congressional Research Service. Retrieved 28 July 2016.
  8. ↑ "AMSC Awarded U.S. Navy Contract for Insertion of Ship Protection System on USS Fort Lauderdale, LPD 28". The New York Times. 6 September 2017. Retrieved 16 October 2017.

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