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US Navy - Amphibious Transport Dock LPD 25 - USS Somerset |
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class: Amphibious Transport Dock (LPD); San Antonio
class Builder: Huntington Ingalls Industries, Avondale Operations, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA STATUS: Awarded: December 21, 2007 Laid down: December 11, 2009 Launched: April 14, 2012 Christened: July 28, 2012 Commissioned: March 1, 2014 IN SERVICE Homeport: Naval Base San Diego, California Namesake: Somerset County, Pennsylvania Ships Motto: VIRTUS PER ADVERSA (courage through adversity) Technical Data: see: INFO > San Antonio class Amphibious Transport Dock - LPD |
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 a Landing Craft air-cusioned (LCAC) in the well deck during exercise Pacific Blitz 2019 - Pacific Ocean - March 2019  a Landing Craft, utility (LCU) in the well deck during exercise Pacific Blitz 2019 - Pacific Ocean - March 2019  a Landing Craft, utility (LCU) in the well deck during exercise Pacific Blitz 2019 - Pacific Ocean - March 2019  a Landing Craft, utility (LCU) in the well deck during exercise Pacific Blitz 2019 - Pacific Ocean - March 2019  during exercise Pacific Blitz 2019 - Pacific Ocean - March 2019  a Japan Self Defense Force AAV in the well deck during exercise Iron Fist 2019 - Pacific Ocean - January 2019  a Japan Self Defense Force AAV in the well deck during exercise Iron Fist 2019 - Pacific Ocean - January 2019  Pacific Ocean - December 2018  Valparaiso, Chile - November 2018  Valparaiso, Chile - November 2018  Valparaiso, Chile - November 2018  Pacific Ocean - November 2018  Pacific Ocean - November 2018  Pacific Ocean - November 2018  Pacific Ocean - November 2018  well deck display - Seattle Seafair Fleet Week - Seattle, Washington - July 2018  Parade of Ships - Seattle Seafair Fleet Week - Seattle, Washington - July 2018  Parade of Ships - Seattle Seafair Fleet Week - Seattle, Washington - July 2018  off San Diego - July 2018  Amphibious Assault Vehicles (AAV-P7/A1) prepare to depart the well deck during exercise UNITAS LVIII - Pacific Ocean - July 2017  a Landing Craft, Utility (LCU) in the well deck during exercise UNITAS LVIII - Pacific Ocean - July 2017  well deck operations during exercise Sea Soldier 17 - Gulf of Oman - March 2017  flight deck operations - January 2017  flight deck operations - December 2016  Gulf of Aden - December 2016  well deck view during exercise Alligator Dagger - December 2016  Pacific Ocean - November 2016  Pacific Ocean - August 2016  Pacific Ocean - August 2016  Pacific Ocean - August 2016  a RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) was fired - Pacific Ocean - July 2016  San Francisco Fleet Week - October 2015  Amphibious Assault Vehicles (AAV) prepare to depart the well deck during exercise Dawn Blitz DB-15 - Pacific Ocean - September 2015  Amphibious Assault Vehicles (AAV) return to the well deck during exercise Dawn Blitz DB-15 - Pacific Ocean - September 2015  Fleet Week San Diego, California - September 2015  San Diego, California - June 2015  Naval Base San Diego, California - November 2014  arriving at it's new homeport at Naval Base San Diego, California - April 21, 2014  commissioning ceremony - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - March 1, 2014  commissioning ceremony - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - March 1, 2014  arriving at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - February 2014  sea trials - Gulf of Mexico - August 2013 (HII photo via USN)  launching ceremony at Huntington Ingalls Avondale shipyard, Louisiana - April 14, 2012  launching ceremony at Huntington Ingalls Avondale shipyard, Louisiana - April 14, 2012    |
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USS Somerset (LPD 25): The third Somerset (LPD-25) was laid down on 11 December 2009 at Avondale, La., by Northrop Grumman Ship Systems; launched on 14 April 2012; christened on 28 July 2012; sponsored by Mrs.Mary Jo Myers, the wife of General Richard Myers, USAF, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; delivered on 18 October 2013; and commissioned at Philadelphia, Pa., on 1 March 2014, Capt. Thomas L. Dearborn in command. After being visited by over 18,000 people during her visit to Philadelphia, including families of the passengers lost on board United Flight 93, Somerset departed that city on 4 March 2014, beginning her voyage to the West Coast. Proceeding via Mayport, Fla., the new amphibious transport dock transited the Panama Canal, and ultimately reached San Diego on 22 April. Following her fitting out availability (28 April-9 June 2014), Somerset completed her combat systems qualification trials (CSSQT), punctuating the last two phases with a missile shoot on the ULM-4 Range (20 July). Later that summer, prior to her carrying out the rehearsal for her final contract trials (24-29 August), Somerset served as the host ship for the Mexican Navy’s sail training vessel Cuauhtemoc (BE-01) (15-19 August). The new amphibious ship then took part in San Diego’s Fleet Week festivities, hosting over 3,000 visitors (19-22 September), spending the remainder of September and into October preparing for the final contract trials (2-7 November). Following performance and special trials (8-18 December), Somerset, shortly before Christmas, welcomed the family of the late Richard Guadagno, who had perished in the crash of Flight 93, providing a tour of the ship and enabling them to visit the ship’s museum. Somerset sailed on her maiden deployment as part of the Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group during a voyage to the western Pacific and Indian Oceans (14 October 2016-15 May 2017). The group, which comprised amphibious assault ship Makin Island (LHD-8), Somerset, and dock landing ship Comstock (LSD-45), embarked the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit from Camp Pendleton, Calif., together with Capt. Michael A. Crary, Commander, Amphibious Squadron 5, Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 21, and detachments from Tactical Air Control Squadron 11, Assault Craft Unit 5, Fleet Surgical Team 5, and Beachmaster Unit 11, and worked with the armed forces of Japan, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Oman, Djibouti, and Papua New Guinea. In addition, they visited ports in Guam, Singapore, Hong Kong, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Seychelles, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates. “I am very proud of Somerset’s Blue and Green Team and their ability to quickly adapt to changing mission sets on this deployment,” Capt. Darren Glaser, the ship’s commanding officer, reflected. “From our participation in the first-ever theater security cooperation event with the newly-formed Sri Lankan Marine Corps, to our bilateral exercise with the Royal Omani Forces in Exercise Sea Soldier, and executing a range of amphibious operations in the Middle East, Somerset has worked extraordinarily hard during this deployment to accomplish every mission asked of us. The team can be proud that they truly lived up to the memory of this ship's 9/11 namesake and set an incredibly high bar on Somerset’s maiden deployment.” source: NHHC |
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Somerset County ... is a county located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. As of the 2010 census, the population was 77742. Its county seat is Somerset. The county was created from part of Bedford County on April 17, 1795, and named after the county of Somerset in England. Somerset County comprises the Somerset, PA Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Johnstown-Somerset, PA Combined Statistical Area. Like her sister ships, USS New York and Arlington, USS Somerset is named in commemoration of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The name honors the passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93 whose actions prevented terrorist highjackers from reaching their intended target, forcing the airplane to crash near Shanksville, Somerset County, PA. Over the weeks following the Flight 93 crash, recovery personnel retrieved more than 95 percent of the airplane's wreckage from the crash site. An American flag was hoisted on the top of a power shovel or "dragline" on a hill dominating the area. The dragline had been used in coal stripping at one time, and the equipment with the flag became a symbol of the effort. In the summer of 2008, the dragline's 22 ton steel bucket was melted down and cast into LPD 25's bow stem, embodying the strength and determination of the people of the United States: to recover, to rally, to take the fight to the enemy. “The courage and heroism of the people aboard Flight 93 will never be forgotten and USS Somerset will leave a legacy that will never be forgotten by those wishing to do harm to this country.” - Secretary of the Navy, Gordon R. England. |
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