USS Carter Hall (LSD-50)

16,400 tons

185.6 m

25.4 m

6.4 m

350 up to 500 marine

2 propellers, four diesel engines; 33,000 shaft horsepower

20 nodes

2 phalanx, 2 starters for air defense missiles

The USS Carter Hall (LSD- 50) is a dock landing ship of the United States Navy and is one of the Harpers Ferry - class. The name derives from the estate Carter Hall in Millwood, Virginia.

History

LSD -50 was commissioned in 1989 and set in 1991 at Avondale Shipyard in Kiel. In 1993, the ship was launched and was baptized. In the fall of 1995, the official commissioning ceremony took place in the fleet of the U.S. Navy.

The first installation was in 1997 in the Mediterranean. 2003 operated the Carter Hall at the side of the USS Iwo Jima (LHD -7) before Liberia, where a civil war raged. 2005 the ship sailed as escort to the USS Nassau ( LHA -4) in the Indian Ocean, where the battle group should guarantee the security of sea lanes against pirates. Later, the group sailed to the Persian Gulf. 2007, the ship was again off Somalia on the go. In June, the crew noticed while occupied by Somali pirates Danish cargo ship MV Danica White. The Carter Hall destroyed three skiffs of the pirates, but could not prevent the kidnapping of the ship in Somali waters the data already on board pirates.

In 2008, the ship sailed, on the side of Iwo Jima, off Somalia. Early 2010, the Carter Hall with the USS Bataan ( LHD 5) and USS Fort McHenry was (LSD -43 ) was used after the earthquake in Haiti to deliver relief supplies to the coasts. With the USS Kearsarge (LHD -3), the Carter Hall moved in August 2010 to bring in by the flood disaster in Pakistan Regions relief supplies ashore.