San Antonio Class Amphibious Transport Dock Ships - USS New York, USS San Antonio, San Antonio Class Amphibious Transport Dock, USS New Orleans (Paperback)

Chapters: Uss New York, Uss San Antonio, San Antonio Class Amphibious Transport Dock, Uss New Orleans, Uss San Diego, Uss Mesa Verde, Uss Green Bay, Uss Arlington, Uss Somerset, Uss Anchorage. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 41. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: USS New York (LPD-21), the fifth San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock, is the sixth ship of the United States Navy to be named after the state of New York. The New York has a crew of 360, and can also carry up to 700 Marines. The ship is notable for using steel that was salvaged from the World Trade Center, after it was destroyed in the September 11 attacks. Steel from the World Trade Center is poured for construction of the New York, September 2003. Steel from the World Trade Center is displayed aboard the ship.The ship is the first to be designed fully from the CAD-screen up to support all three of the Marines' primary mobility capabilities the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV), Landing Craft Air Cushion and MV-22B Osprey. Shortly after 11 September 2001, Governor of New York George E. Pataki wrote a letter to Secretary of the Navy Gordon R. England requesting that the Navy bestow the name USS New York on a surface warship involved in the War on Terrorism in honor of September 11's victims. The contract to build the New York was awarded to Northrop Grumman Ship Systems of New Orleans, Louisiana, in 2003. The New York was under construction in New Orleans at the time of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. 7.5 short tons (6.8 t) of the steel used in the ship's construction came from the rubble of the World Trade Center; this represents less than one thousandth of the total weight of the ship. The steel was melted down at Amite Foundry and Machine in Amite, Louisiana, to cast the ship's bow section. It was poured into the m...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=216814