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USS Mesa Verde (LPD-19)
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Homeport:| NorfolkVirginiaSaying: built with pride and ready to ride
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| Career |  |
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| Awarded: | 29 February 2000 |
| Laid down: | 25 February 2003 |
| Launched: | 19 November 2004 |
| Commissioned: | Dec. 15 2007 P.C. F.L. |
| Status: | Active |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 24,433 tons full |
| Length: | 208.4 meters (684 ft) overall, 201.4 meters (661 ft) waterline |
| Beam: | 32 meters (105 ft) extreme, 29.5 meters (97 ft) waterline |
| Draft: | 7 meters (23 ft) |
| Propulsion: | Four Colt-Pielstick diesel engines, two shafts, 40,000 hp (30 MW) |
| Speed: | 22 knots (41 km/h) |
| Range: | |
| Complement: | 28 officers, 332 enlisted, and 3 Marines |
| Armament: | 2 × 30 guns for surface threat defense; and RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile launchers for air defense and 17 .50 cal. mechine guns for close protection |
| Aircraft: | Four CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters or two MV-22 tilt rotor aircraft may be launched or recovered simultaneously. |
| Landing Craft: | Two LCACs (air cushion) or one LCU (conventional); 14 EFVs |
| Troops: | 699 (66 officers, 633 enlisted); surge to 800 total. |
| Motto: | Courage Teamwork Tradition |
USS Mesa Verde (LPD-19), a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock, is the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado. The ship is designed to deliver a fully equipped battalion of up to 800 Marines.
The contract to build her was awarded on 29 February 2000 to Northrop Grumman Ship Systems of Pascagoula, Mississippi, and her keel was laid down on 25 February 2003. She was launched on 19 November 2004, and christened on 15 January 2005 with Linda Price Campbell, wife of former Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell of Colorado, serving as the ship’s sponsor. Commander Shawn W. Lobree is scheduled to take command when the ship is commissioned in 2007.
This article contains information from the Naval Vessel Registry and various other United States Navy Web sites. The Mesa Verde is now the USS Mesa Verde, the ship was comissioned dec. 15 at the port of panama city it was a great sight the indians blessed it and Mrs. Camble ordered the salors to "man your ship" and they replied back "Aye Aye Ma'am" and the boarded in a straight line and manned the decks for the extange of command it was a great sight
- PCU Mesa Verde official website
- navsource.org: PCU Mesa Verde
- nvr.navy.mil: PCU Mesa Verde
- LPD-19 Personnel Roster at HullNumber.com