USS Oak Hill (LSD-51)
USS Oak Hill (LSD-51) transits the Suez Canal into the Red Sea.
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| Name: | Oak Hill |
| Namesake: | Oak Hill |
| Ordered: | 27 March 1991 |
| Laid down: | 21 September 1992 |
| Launched: | 11 June 1994 |
| Commissioned: | 8 June 1996 |
| Homeport: | JEB Little Creek, Norfolk, Virginia |
| Motto: | Nations' Protector |
| Status: | in active service |
| Badge: |  |
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| Class and type: | Harpers Ferry-class dock landing ship |
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| Length: | 609 ft 7 in (185.80 m) |
| Beam: | 84 ft (26 m) |
| Draft: | 21 ft (6.4 m) |
| Decks: | 12 |
| Installed power: | 4 Fairbanks Morse 12 cylinder opposed piston generators |
| Propulsion: | 4 Colt Industries, 16-cylinder diesel engines, 2 shafts, 33,000 shp (25,000 kW) |
| Speed: | over 24.5 knots (45.4 km/h; 28.2 mph) |
| Boats & landing craft carried: |
2 landing craft air cushion (LCAC) or 1 landing craft unit (LCU) |
| Capacity: | 15 amphibious assault vehicles, 2 M1A1 Abrams tanks |
| Troops: | Marine detachment: 402 + 102 surge |
| Complement: | 22 officers, 397 enlisted |
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USS Oak Hill (LSD-51) is a Harpers Ferry-class dock landing ship of the United States Navy. Oak Hill is the second United States Navy ship to be named after Oak Hill, the home of U.S. President James Monroe.
USS Oak Hill is commanded by Commander Nakia M. Cooper, U.S. Navy. The ship is currently homeported at Little Creek Amphibious Base, Virginia Beach, Virginia, and is assigned to Amphibious Squadron 4.
Oak Hill honors the residence of James Monroe, the fifth President of the United States. The Monroe Doctrine was penned at Oak Hill, and subsequently delivered at an 1823 Congressional address which asserted that the Western Hemisphere was never to be colonized again. This doctrine is the inspiration for the Ship’s Motto: Nations’ Protector. USS Oak Hill is the second ship to honor the residence.
Oak Hill was commissioned on 8 June 1996 and is a Whidbey Island Cargo Variant-Dock Landing Ship.
Shortly after commissioning, Oak Hill served as command and control ship for the recovery of TWA Flight 800 wreckage.
From February to July 2000 the ship deployed with the USS Wasp Amphibious Readiness Group (ARG) in the Mediterranean Sea in support of the military exercises Dynamic Mix and Noble Shirley. In May 2001 the ship was opened to public tours for Fleet Week at Port Everglades, Florida. From February to August 2002 Oak Hill was sent with the Wasp ARG and the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) to the Persian Gulf in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.
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