USS Essex LHD-2

Type:
Amphibious Assault (Multi-Purpose)
Class:
Builder:
Litton-Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp.
Pascagoula, Mississippi
Hull Number:
LHD-2
Ordered:
September 10, 1986
Commissioned:
October 17, 1992
Keel Laid:
March 20, 1989
Decommissioned:
Launched:
February 23, 1991
Stricken:


Fate:
Active Pacific Fleet
Forward deployed at Sasebo, Japan.


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