USS New Orleans (LPD-18)

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Career
Awarded:	18 December 1998
Laid down:	14 October 2002
Fate:	Under construction
General Characteristics
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:	33 officers, 364 men

USS New Orleans (LPD-18), a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock, is the fourth commissioned ship of the United States Navy to be named for the city in Louisiana. The contract to build her was awarded on 18 December 1998 to Northrop Grumman Ship Systems of New Orleans, Louisiana, and her keel was laid down on 14 October 2002.

See USS New Orleans for other ships of this name.

References

This article contains information from the Naval Vessel Registry and various other US Navy Web sites.