USS Carter Hall LSD50

Namesake: Carter Hall
Ordered: 22 December 1989
Laid down: 11. Nov 91
Launched: 2 October 1993
Commissioned: 30. Sep 95
Homeport: NAB Little Creek, Virginia
Motto: Working For Peace Ready For War
Status: in active service

Class and type: Harpers Ferry-class dock landing ship
Displacement: 11,471 tons (light)
16,360 tons (full)
Length: 610 ft (190 m)
Beam: 84 ft (26 m)
Draft: 21 ft (6.4 m)
Propulsion: 4 Colt Industries, 16-cylinder diesel engines, 2 shafts, 33,000 shp (25,000 kW)
Speed: over 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Boats & landing 2 LCACs
craft carried:
Complement: 22 officers, 397 enlisted
Marine detachment: 402 + 102 surge
Armament: 2 × 25 mm Mk 38 cannons
2 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS mounts
2 × Rolling Airframe Missile launchers
6 × .50 caliber M2HB machine guns