USS New York

I'd heard mention of this ship before but for the first time I came across a picture of the new USS New York. Built with 24 tons of scrap steel from Ground Zero, the USS New York will be a San Antonio class landing-platform dock. It's sexier than it sounds. The ship is built to carry out what is an increasingly important mission for the Navy, getting Marines and Special Operations Forces where they need to go and onto the beach. She'll carry a 360-man crew and be capable of carrying up to 700 combat-equipped Marines, helicopters, and support craft. The New York should see service in 2008 and will be the fifth of twelve ships in the class. She will be joined later by the USS Arlington and the USS Somerset. 1010 WINS has the story on how the USS New York already rode out Katrina.

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