USS Carter Hall (LSD-50)

Carter Hall cruising the Indian Ocean, 7 October 2007
History
United States
Namesake	Carter Hall in Virginia
Ordered	22 December 1989
Laid down	11 November 1991
Launched	2 October 1993
Commissioned	30 September 1995
Homeport	JEBLC, Virginia
Motto	Working For Peace Ready For War
Status	in active service
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General characteristics
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 craft carried	LCACs or 1 LCU or four LCM-8 or nine LCM-6
Capacity	15 Amphibious Assault Vehicles (AAV), 4 M1 Abrams tanks
Complement	24 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

USS Carter Hall (LSD-50) is a Harpers Ferry-class dock landing ship of the United States Navy. She is the second US Navy ship to be named for Carter Hall, an estate near Winchester, Virginia, built in the 1790s.

Carter Hall was laid down on 11 November 1991 by the Avondale Shipyards at New Orleans, Louisiana. The ship was launched on 2 October 1993 and commissioned on 30 September 1995.

As of July 2023, Carter Hall, along with USS Bataan (LHD-5) and elements of the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, are being dispatched to U.S. Central Command in the Middle East as part of the U.S. response to Iran’s continued seizure of commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz.^[1]