USS Rushmore (LSD-47)
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| Name: | USS Rushmore |
| Namesake: | Mount Rushmore National Memorial |
| Ordered: | 11 December 1985 |
| Builder: | Avondale Shipyards |
| Cost: | $149 million |
| Laid down: | 9 November 1987 |
| Launched: | 6 May 1989 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs. Meredith Brokaw |
| Christened: | 6 May 1989 |
| Commissioned: | 1 June 1991 |
| Homeport: | Naval Base San Diego |
| Motto: | Nobility Power |
| Status: | in active service |
| Badge: |  |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Whidbey Island / LSD-41 |
| Type: | Dock Landing Ship |
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| Length: | 609 ft (186 m) |
| Beam: | 84 ft (26 m) |
| Draft: | 20 ft (6.1 m) |
| Propulsion: | 4 Colt Industries, 16-cylinder diesel engines, 2 shafts, 33,000 shp (25 MW) |
| Speed: | 20+ knots (37+ km/h) |
| Boats & landing craft carried: |
4 LCAC or 3 Landing Craft Utility (on deck: 1 RHIB (7m), 1 RHIB (11m), and 1 LCPL) |
| Troops: | USMC Landing Force: 27 officers, 375 enlisted + 102 surge |
| Crew: | 22 officers, 391 enlisted |
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| Aviation facilities: | 2 helicopter landing spots, no hangar |
USS Rushmore (LSD-47) is a Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship of the United States Navy. She was the second Navy ship to be named for the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in the Black Hills of South Dakota. She is the seventh ship in her class of dock landing ships and the fourth ship in that class to serve in the United States Pacific Fleet.
Rushmore (LSD-47) was laid down on 9 November 1987, by the Avondale Shipyards, New Orleans; launched on 6 May 1989, sponsored by Mrs. Meredith Brokaw, wife of NBC News anchorman Tom Brokaw; and commissioned on 1 June 1991, at New Orleans.
The assigned mission of the dock landing ship is to transport and launch loaded amphibious craft and vehicles with their crews and embarked personnel in amphibious assaults by landing craft and amphibious vehicles. It can render limited docking repair service to small ships and craft.
The Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship provides for greater storage space of weapons and equipment, improved facilities for embarked troops, greater range of operations, and the capability to embark either conventional landing craft or LCAC. The ships incorporate materiel handling equipment including elevators, package/roller conveyors and forklifts, pallet transporters, and a turntable. The turntable is located between the well deck and the helicopter deck forward of the boat deck to assist in the rapid turnaround of vehicles and equipment during loading/offloading operations.
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