USS New York (LPD-21)

New York in the Hudson River on 2 November 2009
History
Name:	USS New York
Namesake:	The state of New York
Awarded:	November 25, 2003
Builder:	Northrop Grumman Ship Systems
Laid down:	September 10, 2004
Launched:	December 19, 2007
Christened:	March 1, 2008
Acquired:	August 21, 2009
Commissioned:	November 7, 2009
Homeport:	Naval Station Mayport
Motto:	"Strength forged through sacrifice. Never forget."
Status:	in active service
Badge:
General characteristics
Class and type:	San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock
Displacement:	24,900 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 10,400 hp sequentially turbocharged marine Colt-Pielstick diesel engines, two shafts, 41,600 shp (30 MW), driving Rolls-Royce controllable-pitch propellers
Speed:	In excess of 22 knots (25 mph; 41 km/h)
Boats & landing craft carried:	2 LCACs or 1 LCU; 14 AAVs
Capacity:	Embarked Landing Force: 699 (66 officers, 633 enlisted) surge capacity to 800.
Complement:	28 officers, 332 enlisted
Armament:	Two Bushmaster II 30 mm Close in Guns, fore and aft two Rolling Airframe Missile launchers, fore and aft.
Aircraft carried:	Launch or land two CH-53E Super Stallion two MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft four CH-46 Sea Knight four AH-1 SeaCobra or four UH-1 Iroquois helicopters.

USS New York (LPD-21), the fifth San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock, is the fifth ship of the United States Navy to be named after the state of New York.New York has a crew of 360 and can carry up to 700 Marines. It is notable for using a symbolic amount of steel salvaged from the World Trade Center after it was destroyed in the September 11 attacks.

Shortly after 11 September 2001, Governor of New York George E. Pataki wrote a letter to Secretary of the Navy Gordon R. England requesting that the Navy bestow the name "New York" on a surface warship involved in the War on Terrorism in honor of the victims of the September 11 attacks. In his letter, the Governor said he understood state names were 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.

The ship is the first to be designed fully from the CAD-screen up to support all of the Marines' primary mobility capabilities—Landing Craft Air Cushion and MV-22B Osprey.

The contract to build New York was awarded to Northrop Grumman Ship Systems of New Orleans, Louisiana, in 2003. New York was under construction in New Orleans at the time of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.