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Uss Nassau (Lha-4) | colspan=2 align="center" | | | colspan=2 style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy url(/upload/6/63/Usnjack.png) no-repeat scroll top left;" | Career | | Ordered: | - | | Laid down: | 13 August 1973 | | Launched: | 21 January 1978 | | Commissioned: | 28 July 1979 | | ate: | | | colspan=2 style="color: white; background: navy;" | General Characteristics | | Displacement: | 39,300 tons | | Length: | 833.34 feet (254 meters) | | Flight Deck Width: | 132.2 feet (40.3 meters) | | Beam: | 106.6 feet (32.5 meters) | | Draft: | 26.25 feet (8 meters) | | Speed: | 24 knots | | Complement: | 82 officers, 882 enlisted, 1,900+ Marines | | Armament: | two Rolling Airframe Missile Systems (RAM), four 25mm Mk 38 Gun Mounts, two Phalanx CIWS, five 50 Cal. Mounts | | Aircraft: | 6 AV-8B Harrier attack planes, 4 AH-1W Super Cobra attack helicopters, 12 CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters, 9 CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopters, 4 UH-1N Huey helicopters | USS ''Nassau'' is an amphibious assault vessel. It is approximately 106 feet wide, 820 feet long and 20 stories high, capable of transporting over 3,000 Navy and Marine Corps personnel. It has 1,400 compartments - about the same number as a large hotel, has nine elevators and two horizontal conveyors - more than most department stores. It has 2 boilers - the largest ever manufactured for the United States Navy. They can generate a total of 400 tons of steam per hour and develop 140,000 horsepower - equivalent to the horsepower of more than 700 average automobiles. NASSAU has electrical power subsystem creating 14,000 kilowatts to provide electrical power for the ship - adequate electrical power to light 11,500 homes for 50,000 people. It has 1,500 tons of air conditioning equipment - sufficient to environmentally control a 32-story office building or 500 average homes and can ballast 12,000 tons of seawater for trimming the ship to receive and discharge landing craft from the well deck. It was constructed with more than 20,000 tons of steel, 3,000 tons of aluminum, 400 miles of cable and 80 miles of pipe and has a 300 bed hospital, 4 medical operating rooms and 3 dental operating rooms. It has a 900-horsepower bow thruster for lateral movement at low speeds that can move the bow with 20,000 pounds of force - equivalent to half the pulling power of a diesel/electrical locomotive. It's cargo areas are capable of holding an incredible amount LPD's, LCAC's, Tanks, Trucks, Cannons and just about anything the Marine Corps Combat Cargo Division and Navy SeaBee's need. External link
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