USS San Diego (LPD-22)
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San Diego underway in February 2014
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| Namesake: | The City of San Diego, California |
| Awarded: | 1 June 2006 |
| Builder: | NGSS Ingalls |
| Laid down: | 23 May 2007 |
| Launched: | 7 May 2010 |
| Christened: | 12 June 2010 |
| Commissioned: | 19 May 2012 |
| Homeport: | Naval Base San Diego |
| Motto: | Semper Vigilans ("Always vigilant") |
| Status: | in active service |
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| Class and type: | San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock |
| Displacement: | 25,000 tons full |
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| Draft: | 7 m (23 ft) |
| Propulsion: | Four Colt-Pielstick diesel engines, two shafts, 40,000 hp (30 MW) |
| Speed: | 22 knots (41 km/h) |
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| Capacity: | 699 (66 officers, 633 enlisted); surge to 800 total. |
| Complement: | 28 officers, 333 enlisted |
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| Aircraft carried: | Four CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters or two MV-22 tilt rotor aircraft may be launched or recovered simultaneously. |
USS San Diego (LPD-22), a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock, is the fourth ship of the United States Navy to be named for San Diego, California (United States).
Secretary of the Navy Gordon R. England named the San Diego on 30 April 2004:
The city is the home of Naval Base San Diego, the Navy's largest base in the Pacific, and Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, the United States Marine Corps' west coast recruit training center.
San Diego's keel was laid down on 23 May 2007, at Northrop Grumman's Ingalls shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi. She was launched on 7 May 2010, and christened on 12 June, sponsored by Linda Winter, wife of former Navy Secretary Donald C. Winter.
On 1 October 2011, it was announced that San Diego had completed her builders trials, including tests of her defensive, communications, propulsion and other auxiliary systems, leaving only the repair of issues that arose in the builders trials and thereafter Navy Acceptance Trials before delivery. Her acceptance trials were completed on 17 November, ahead of her delivery to the Navy on 19 December.
On 7 February 2014 Captain John Menoni took command as the San Diego's fourth commanding Officer. Captain Menoni arrived in November 2012 as the executive officer of San Diego. He received his commission in 1991 after graduating from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
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