USS San Antonio (LPD-17)

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Career
Awarded:	17 December 1996
Laid down:	9 December 2000
Fate:	Under construction
General Characteristics
Displacement:	24433 tons light, 24433 tons full
Length:	208.4 meters (684 feet) overall, 201.4 meters (661 feet) waterline
Beam:	32 meters (105 feet) extreme, 29.5 meters (97 feet) waterline
Draft:	7 meters (23 feet)
Complement:	33 officers, 364 men

USS San Antonio (LPD-17), the lead ship of her class of amphibious transport dock, is the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the city in Texas. The contract to build her was awarded on 17 December 1996 to Northrop Grumman Ship Systems[?] of New Orleans, Louisiana and her keel was laid down on 9 December 2000. She was launched on 12 July 2003 and christened on 19 July. She is scheduled to receive the first increment of her precommissioning crew in October 2003, and be commissioned in November 2004.

References This article contains information from the Naval Vessel Registry and various other US Navy Web sites.