USS Oak Hill (LSD-51)

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 Oak Hill (LSD- 51) is a dock landing ship of the United States Navy and is one of the Harpers Ferry - class. The name is derived from the property Oak Hill in Leesburg, Virginia.

History

LSD - 51 was commissioned in 1991 and set in 1992 at Avondale Shipyard in Kiel. 1994 ran the ship from the stack and was baptized. In June 1996, the official commissioning ceremony took place in the fleet of the U.S. Navy.

1997 began the first laying of Oak Hill. During Operation Southern Watch, the ship sailed to the Persian Gulf. During an exercise in 2000 before Morehead City, North Carolina, the Oak Hill ran aground on a sandbank and could be towed free after eight hours. The ship was not damaged.

2002 Oak Hill drove Operation Enduring Freedom at the side of the USS Wasp (LHD -1) before Afghanistan and the Gulf in the frame. In 2005, the Oak Hill was as an escort of the USS Saipan (LHA -2) in the Caribbean, where they sought on the one hand by drug smugglers, but also humanitarian aid in Haiti contributed. In early 2006, the ship sailed for three months in the Indian Ocean. At the USS Bataan side ( LHD -5) was the Oak Hill in 2007 there. The majority of 2008 spent the ship in the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf. In 2009 she participated in the exercise Talisman Saber with Australian forces in part.