uss new york (lpd-21)

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Career
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Awarded:	25 November 2003
Laid down:	10 September 2004
Launched:
Commissioned:
Fate:	Under construction
Homeport:
General Characteristics
Displacement:	24333 tons light, 24333 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:	32 officers, 364 men

USS New York (LPD-21), a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock, is the sixth ship of the United States Navy to be named for the state of New York. Shortly after 11 September 2001, Governor of New York George E. Pataki wrote a letter to Secretary of the Navy Gordon England requesting that the Navy bestow the name USS New York on a surface warship involved in the War on Terror in honor of September 11's victims. In his letter, the Governor said he understood state names presently are reserved for submarines but asked for special consideration so the name could be given to a surface ship. The request was approved 28 August 2002. Some of the metal used in its construction will come from the rubble of the World Trade Center. On 9 September 2004, the Secretary of the Navy announced that two of her sister ships, Arlington and Somerset will also commerorate the attacks. The contract to build New York was awarded to Northrop Grumman Ship Systems of New Orleans, Louisiana in 2003. See USS New York for other ships named for the state, and USS New York City for ships named for the city.

References

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

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