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US Navy - Amphibious Assault Ship LHA 7 - USS Tripoli |
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Type,
class: Amphibious Assault Ship (general purpose);
America
class / Flight 0 Builder: Huntington Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi, USA STATUS: Awarded: May 31, 2012 Laid down: June 20, 2014 Launched: May 1, 2017 Christened: September 16, 2017 Commissioned: July 15, 2020 IN SERVICE Homeport: Naval Base San Diego, California Namesake: Battle of Derna (Tripolitania, Lybia) - 1805 Ships Motto: IN AERE TERRAM MARIQUE (in the air - on land - at sea) Technical Data: see: INFO > America class Amphibious Assault Ship - LHA |
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Deployments: July 2020 - September 2020 with HSC-14 (Det) embarked - Pascagoula, Mississippi to San Diego, California via Strait of Magellan May 2022 - November 2022 with 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit - SOC (MEU/SOC) and VMM-262(REIN) embarked - Pacific Ocean |
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 exercise Steel Knight - Pacific Ocean - December 2022  returning to Naval Base San Diego, California - November 29, 2022  Hobart, Tasmania, Australia - November 2022  Hobart, Tasmania, Australia - November 2022  Sydney, Australia - November 2022  with VMM-262(REIN) embarked - South China Sea - October 2022  with VMM-262(REIN) embarked - South China Sea - October 2022  with VMM-262(REIN) embarked - alongside her sister ship USS America (LHA 6) - East China Sea - September 2022  with VMM-262(REIN) embarked - East China Sea - September 2022  with VMM-262(REIN) embarked - East China Sea - September 2022  with VMM-262(REIN) embarked - Changi Naval Base, Singapore - September 2022  with VMM-262(REIN) embarked - Philippine Sea - August 2022  with VMM-262(REIN) embarked - Philippine Sea - August 2022  with VMM-262(REIN) embarked - Philippine Sea - August 2022  with VMM-262(REIN) embarked - Philippine Sea - August 2022  with VMFA-121 embarked - departing Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan - June 2022  with VMFA-121 embarked - Pacific Ocean - May 2022  arriving at MCAS Iwakuni, Japan - May 2022  arriving at MCAS Iwakuni, Japan - May 2022  Pacific Ocean - May 2022  departing Naval Base San Diego, California - May 2022  Pacific Ocean - April 2022  Pacific Ocean - April 2022  an RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) was fired - Pacific Ocean - April 2022  USS Tripoli completed flight deck operations with 20 F-35B Lightning II jets from VMFA-211 and VMFA-225, as well as VMX-1, as part of the USMC Lightning carrier concept demonstration - April 2022  "Lightning carrier" departing NAS North Island, California - April 2022  "Lightning carrier" departing NAS North Island, California - April 2022  "Lightning carrier" departing NAS North Island, California - April 2022  NAS North Island, California - April 2022  NAS North Island, California - April 2022  NAS North Island, California - April 2022  NAS North Island, California - April 2022  F-35B Lightning II operations - Pacific Ocean - April 2022  F-35B Lightning II operations - Pacific Ocean - April 2022  F-35B Lightning II operations - Pacific Ocean - April 2022  arriving at San Francisco for Fleet Week - September 2021  arriving at San Francisco for Fleet Week - September 2021  arriving at San Francisco for Fleet Week - September 2021  arriving at San Francisco for Fleet Week - September 2021  arriving at San Francisco for Fleet Week - September 2021  a RIM-116 rolling airframe missile (RAM) was fired - Pacific Ocean - August 2021  May 2021  arriving at her new homeport, San Diego, California - September 18, 2020  arriving at her new homeport, San Diego, California - September 18, 2020  arriving at her new homeport, San Diego, California - September 18, 2020  arriving at her new homeport, San Diego, California - September 18, 2020  off Chile - September 2020  Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - August 2020  Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - August 2020  Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - August 2020  Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - August 2020  Pascagoula, Mississippi - July 2020  builder's trials - Gulf of Mexico - July 2019  builder's trials - Gulf of Mexico - July 2019  launching at Huntington Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi - May 1, 2017  launching at Huntington Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi - May 1, 2017  deckhouse installation at Huntington Ingalls Shipyard - Pascagoula, Mississippi - July 2016 |
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USS Tripoli (LHA 7): Tripoli was built by Ingalls Shipbuilding (Huntington Ingalls Industries) in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Fabrication of ship components began in July 2013, and the ship's keel was laid in a ceremony on 20 June 2014 in Pascagoula. Tripoli was launched on 1 May and later christened on 16 September 2017, with Lynne Mabus (wife of former Navy Secretary Ray Mabus) as her sponsor. By 2019, Tripoli was about a year behind production schedules. The ship was delivered to the Navy on 28 February 2020 in preparation for commissioning. During the COVID-19 pandemic, on 17 April 2020, The Wall Street Journal reported that Navy officials had stated that at least 9 sailors assigned to the ship had tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. At the time, the ship was docked in Pascagoula. About 630 sailors were moved off the ship as a preventative measure, which resulted in the outbreak spreading to only "around a couple dozen sailors". As a result of the pandemic, the ship's public commissioning ceremony originally planned to occur at NAS Pensacola in June was also cancelled. Subsequently, Tripoli was commissioned on 15 July 2020 in Pascagoula, Mississippi, where the ship was built. In September 2020, Tripoli completed a homeport shift from Pascagoula, Mississippi to San Diego, California. On 2 May 2022, Tripoli departed Naval Station San Diego for the Western Pacific Ocean on her maiden deployment, taking on 20 F-35Bs at one point in a test of the "lightning carrier" concept. On 25 July 2022, she transitioned to an amphibious ready role by embarking the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit at Naval Base Okinawa, Japan, before transiting the South China Sea to make a port call at Singapore's Changi Naval Base on 31 Aug 2022. She returned to San Diego on 29 November 2022. |
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The Battle of Derna at Derna, Cyrenaica ... was the decisive victory in April - May 1805 of a mercenary army recruited and led by United States Marines under the command of U.S. Army Lieutenant William Eaton, diplomatic Consul to Tripoli, and U.S. Marine Corps First Lieutenant Presley Neville O'Bannon. The battle involved a forced 500-mile march through the North African desert from Alexandria, Egypt, to the eastern port city of Derna, Libya, which was defended by a much larger force. |
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