USS San Diego (LPD-22)

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For other ships with the same name, see USS San Diego.
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San Diego underway in February 2014
History
Namesake: The City of San Diego, California
Awarded: 1 June 2006
Builder: NGSS Ingalls
Laid down: 23 May 2007
Launched: 7 May 2010
Christened: 12 June 2010
Commissioned: 19 May 2012
Homeport: Naval Base San Diego
Motto: Semper Vigilans ("Always vigilant")
Status: in active service, as of 2024
General characteristics
Class & type: San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock
Displacement: 25,000 tons full
Length:
  • 208.5 m (684 ft) overall,
  • 201.4 m (661 ft) waterline
Beam:
  •   31.9 m (105 ft) extreme,
  •   29.5 m (97 ft) waterline
Draft:     7 m (23 ft)
Propulsion: Four Colt-Pielstick diesel engines, two shafts, 40,000 hp (30 MW)
Speed: 22 knots (41 km/h)
Boats & landing
craft carried:
  • Two LCACs (air cushion)
  • or one LCU (conventional)
Capacity: 699 (66 officers, 633 enlisted); surge to 800 total.
Complement: 28 officers, 333 enlisted
Armament:
Aircraft carried: Four CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters or two MV-22 tilt rotor aircraft may be launched or recovered simultaneously.

USS San Diego (LPD-22), a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock, is the fourth ship of the United States Navy to be named for San Diego, California (USA).

Construction

Ship's name

Secretary of the Navy Gordon R. England named the San Diego on 30 April 2004:

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San Diego is home to a large number of the Pacific Fleet's ships. For decades our nation's sailors and Marines have begun their service to America at boot camps in San Diego. Thousands of military families and veterans have fallen in love with the area, and are fortunate enough to live and work in San Diego. USS San Diego will project American power to the far corners of the earth and support the cause of freedom well into the 21st century.

The city is the home of Naval Base San Diego, the Navy's largest base in the Pacific, and Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, the United States Marine Corps' west coast recruit training center.

San Diego's keel was laid down on 23 May 2007, at Northrop Grumman's Ingalls shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi. She was launched on 7 May 2010,[1] and christened on 12 June, sponsored by Linda Winter, wife of former Navy Secretary Donald C. Winter.[2][3]

On 1 October 2011, it was announced that San Diego had completed her builders trials, including tests of her defensive, communications, propulsion and other auxiliary systems, leaving only the repair of issues that arose in the builders trials and thereafter Navy Acceptance Trials before delivery.[4] Her acceptance trials were completed on 17 November,[5] ahead of her delivery to the Navy on 19 December.[6]

Commissioning

On 7 February 2014 Captain John Menoni took command as the San Diego's fourth commanding Officer. Captain Menoni arrived in November 2012 as the executive officer of San Diego. He received his commission in 1991 after graduating from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

San Diego departed Pascagoula on 15 March 2012[7] and arrived at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on 19 March for a three-day layover on her way to San Diego.[8] San Diego passed through the Panama Canal on 25 March. She arrived in San Diego on 6 April. San Diego was commissioned on 19 May 2012, in a ceremony at the Navy Pier (next to the USS Midway Museum) in San Diego, California.[9]

Operational history

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USS San Diego (LPD-22) in the Red Sea in October 2014.

In late 2014, San Diego operated with the Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group in the United States Fifth Fleet area.

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  • This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. The entry can be found here.


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