Ship Characteristics

• Length: 684 feet (208.5 meters)

• Beam: 105 feet (31.9 meters)

• Displacement: 24,900 long ship tons

• Speed: In excess of 22 knots (24.2 mph)

• Aircraft: Four CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters or two MV-22 Osprey tilt rotor
  
  aircraft may be launched or recovered simultaneously; the ship's hangar
  
  can store 1-2 aircraft

• Armament: Two 30mm Close-in-Guns, for surface threat defense; two
  
  Rolling Airframe Missile launchers for air defense

• Landing Craft: Two LCACs (air cushion) or one LCU (conventional)

• EFVs: 14 Marine Corps Expeditionary Fighting Vehicles

• Power plant: Four Colt-Pielstick diesel engines, two shafts, 40,000 Hp

• Crew: 360 Sailors (28 officers, 332 enlisted) and 3 Marines

• Troops: 699 (66 officers, 633 enlisted)

• LPD 17 Class: San Antonio (LPD 17) , New Orleans (LPD 18) , Mesa Verde
  
  (LPD 19) , Green Bay (LPD 20) , New York (LPD 21) , and San Diego (LPD
  
  22) , Anchorage (LPD 23) , Arlington (LPD 24), and Somerset (LPD 25)

• Motto: “Never Retreat ... Never Surrender”