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Homeport: Naval Base San Diego, CA
USS Anchorage (LPD-23), the seventh San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock, is the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Anchorage, Alaska and the first U.S. Navy ship to be commissioned in Alaska.
The San Antonio-class is the first class of ship equipped with a state-of-the-art fiber-optic Shipboard Wide Area Network (SWAN). Its design provides computer and network access linking every manned space on the ship, to include troop/crew berthing. The SWAN’s design also allows for future growth over the life of the ship as technology advances. Over 760 SWAN drops (i.e. access points) will support computer workstations or other uses throughout the ship.
Anchorage's keel was laid down on September 24, 2007 at the Avondale Shipyard in New Orleans, Louisiana, then owned by Northrop Grumman Ship Systems. The ship was launched on February 12, 2011. She was christened two months later, May 14 - the first ship christened by Huntington Ingalls Industries since Northrop Grumman spun off its shipbuilding divisions as a separate company. The ship's sponsor is Annette Conway, wife of former Marine Corps Commandant General James T. Conway. The ship was formally delivered and accepted by the US Navy on September 17, 2012.
On November 21, 2012 the Pre-Commissioning Unit Anchorage (LPD 23) moored pierside for the first time at her homeport in San Diego during a homecoming ceremony.
The Anchorage was commissioned on May 4, 2013 in her namesake city ...
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USS Anchorage supports HM-14 airborne mine countermeasures training, RIMPAC July 23, 2014
Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Handling) 2nd Class Oliverjay Espina directs a Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 14 aircraft aboard amphibious transport dock USS Anchorage (LPD 23) off the coast of San Diego during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) Exercise 2014. Twenty-two nations, 49 ships, six submarines, more than 200 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC from June 26 to Aug. 1 in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California. The world's largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity that helps participants foster and sustain the cooperative relationships that are critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the world's oceans. RIMPAC 2014 is the 24th exercise in the series that began in 1971.
(U.S. Navy Photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Elena Pence/Released)
Wide view of the pier at which USS Anchorage off-loaded the Orion capsule at Naval Station San Diego, December 8, 2014...
photo credit by: Kevin Balrd
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Comment by NavyDads Admin (Paul) on December 5, 2014 at 6:23pm
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Outstanding Gary......we salute Oliver and the rest of the crew for a job well done!!! America returns to space....FINALLY !!!!!
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Comment by NavyDads Co-Admin, Gary on December 5, 2014 at 6:16pm
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Orion's Test Flight: Recovering America's Space Dream...
By Tomasz Nowakowski | December 3rd 2014 06:44 PM
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140925-N-DI719-015 SAN DIEGO (Sept. 25, 2014) Capt. Michael McKenna, commanding officer of the amphibious transport dock ship USS Anchorage (LPD 23), discusses the Boeing Insitu RQ-21 Blackjack small tactical unmanned aircraft system with Deputy Under Secretary of the Navy for Policy Jodi Greene, center, during a tour of the ship. Anchorage was commissioned May 4, 2013 in the namesake city of Anchorage, Alaska. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Elena Pence/Released)
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Anchorage Completes 3rd NASA Testing...
Story Number: NNS140919-30Release Date: 9/19/2014 11:27:00 PM
By Cheif Mass Communication Specialist (SW/AW) Elena Pence, USS Anchorage (LPD 23 ) Public Affairs
SAN DIEGO (NNS) -- Amphibious transport dock USS Anchorage (LPD 23) arrived at Naval Base San Diego after completing the third Underway Recovery Test (URT-3) for NASA's Orion Program, Sept. 19.
USNS Salvor (ARS 52) was completing URT-4A, a towing and recovery test with NASA's test model of the crew module when Anchorage arrived at the recovery site off the coast of Southern California. Using its crane, Salvor deployed the crew module into the open ocean. Anchorage positioned itself for recovery of the module, accounting for sea state, winds, and other environmental factors.
Deploying the module from Salvor gave Anchorage an opportunity to treat this as a real recovery, because ship's crew didn't have to release the module into the water. During URT-2, Anchorage both deployed and recovered the module.
"We have a good understanding of the challenges we have ahead of us," said Jeremy Graeber, NASA's Recovery Director. "We demonstrated how we would recover from a certain point of the timeline, executed the recovery, and got the module into the well deck safely. We were focusing on putting ourselves into a realistic recovery."
URT-3 is the third at-sea testing, Anchorage's second, of the Orion crew module using a well-deck recovery method. The first testing was conducted aboard USS San Diego (LPD 22). The initial Stationary Recovery Test occurred at Naval Station Norfolk in August 2013 aboard USS Arlington (LPD 24).
Expeditionary Strike Group Three is overseeing URT-3 while Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron Eight is providing air support for observation and documentation. Anchorage Sailors are conducting small boat operations using rigid-hulled inflatable boats in support of Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group One divers. Fleet Weather Center San Diego monitored and reported sea and weather conditions during the test.140916-N-FO359-285
PACIFIC OCEAN (Sept. 16, 2014) Navy Divers, assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit(EODMU) 11, Mobile Dive and Salvage Company 11-7, assist Sailors from the amphibious transport dock ship USS Anchorage (LPD 23) in the retrieval of the forward bay cover during the fourth underway recovery test (URT-4) for the NASA Orion Program. URT-4 is the fourth at-sea testing for the Orion crew module using a well deck recovery method. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Corey Green/Released)
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Comment by Ward Baxter on August 18, 2014 at 2:26pm
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Gary, no, I wasn't aware of that. My son did mention that the skipper was an avid fisherman. We had fishing poles set up on the fantail during the steel beach picnic. Connor also said that the CO would leave the ship, while they were in Hawaii, with a tackle box, pole and Hawaiian shirt.
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