_currently_moored_at_Port_Everglades%2c_Fort_Lauderdale_before_her_commissioning_ceremony.jpg) USSFort Lauderdale before her commissioning ceremony | |
| History | |
|---|---|
 United States | |
| Name | Fort Lauderdale[1] |
| Namesake | City of Fort Lauderdale |
| Awarded | 19 December 2016[1] |
| Builder | Ingalls Shipbuilding |
| Cost | US$1.793B (FY2016)[2] |
| Laid down | 13 October 2017[3] |
| Launched | 28 March 2020[4] |
| Sponsored by | Meredith Berger[3] |
| Christened | 21 August 2021[5] |
| Acquired | 11 March 2022[6] |
| Commissioned | 30 July 2022[7] |
| Homeport | Norfolk |
| Identification | Pennant number: LPD-28 |
| Motto | Together We Fight[8] |
| Status | in active service |
| Badge |  |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | San Antonio-classamphibious transport dock |
| Displacement | 25,000 tonsfull |
| Length |
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| Beam |
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| Draft | 7.0 m (23.0 ft) |
| Propulsion | FourColt-Pielstick diesel engines, two shafts, 40,000 hp (29,828 kW) |
| Speed | 22knots (41 km/h) |
| Boats & landing craft carried | |
| Capacity | 699 (66 officers, 633 enlisted); surge to 800 total. |
| Complement | 28 officers, 333 enlisted |
| Armament |
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| Aircraft carried | 4 ×CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters or 2 ×MV-22 tilt rotor aircraft may be launched or recovered simultaneously. |
USSFort Lauderdale (LPD-28) is the twelfth Flight ISan Antonio-classamphibious transport dock ship of theUnited States Navy. The ship is the first U.S. naval warship to be named forFort Lauderdale, Florida.
Fort Lauderdale features design improvements developed in connection with the Navy's development of a next-generationdock landing ship, known as theLX(R)-class amphibious warfare ship. The LX(R) is intended to replace currentWhidbey Island-class andHarpers Ferry-class dock landing ships.[9]: (Summary) In 2014, the Navy commenced design of LX(R) based on a modifiedSan Antonio-class design.[9]: 6 Because this design work is in progress, the Navy has created design innovations and cost-reduction strategies around theSan Antonio-class design, and the Navy believes that it can apply these innovations and strategies toFort Lauderdale, allowing her to be built at reduced cost.[9]: 9 The main design features intended to reduce the cost ofFort Lauderdale compared to theSan Antonio-class on which she is based are simplified bow works, replacement of the forward and aft composite masts with steel masts, removal of structures from the boat valley, and a stern gate which is open at the top.[3] This will makeFort Lauderdale a "transitional ship" between the currentSan Antonio-class design and future LX(R) vessels.[9]: 9
Fort Lauderdale incorporateshigh temperature superconductor-based mine protectiondegaussing system built byAmerican Superconductor to reduce the magnetic signature of the ship.[10]
On 9 March 2016, the ship was given the nameFort Lauderdale,[11][12] and the contract to build her was awarded to HII's Ingalls Shipyard on 19 December 2016.[13]Fort Lauderdale's keel waslaid down on 13 October 2017, at Ingalls Shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi.[3][14] She waslaunched on 28 March 2020,[4][15] and heracceptance trials were completed on 31 January 2022.[16] The ship wascommissioned during a ceremony in her namesake city ofFort Lauderdale, Florida, on 30 July 2022.[7] She arrived at her homeport inNorfolk, Virginia on 4 August 2022.[17]
In June 2024,Fort Lauderdale was part of MarylandFleet Week atBaltimore Inner Harbor.[18]
This article incorporatespublic domain material fromFort Lauderdale (LPD-28) at theNaval Vessel Register.
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