USS America during a Replenishment at Sea US Navy: 5697552 Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Peter Burghart
USS Tripoli LHA-7 (2020)
USS Tripoli LHA-7, departs Naval Air Station North Island, Calif., April 7, 2022. Tripoli is demonstrating the “Lightning Carrier” concept, by operating up to 20 US Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II STOVL aircraft. (U.S. Marine Corps photo 7134402 by Sgt. Samuel Ruiz)The future USS Tripoli about to be launched US Navy: 3354002
USS Bougainville LHA-8 (building, not yet commissioned, keel laid 2019, projected to enter service 2024)
Wasp Class LHD LOA 843′ / 256.9 m TDISP 41,000 tons Amphibious Assault Ship (7 active, 1 damaged and scrapping)
USS Bataan LHD-5 2019 USN Official 5713374 Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Lyle Wilkie
USS Wasp LHD-1 (1989)USS Essex LHD-2 (1992)
USS Essex, Pohang, Republic of Korea 2006 NARA: 330-CFD-DN-SD-07-01637 JO3 Adam R. Cole, USN
USS Kearsarge LHD-3 (1993)
USS Boxer LHD-4 (1995)
USS Boxer 1998 NARA: 330-CFD-DN-SD-01-09531
USS Bataan LHD-5 (1997)USS Bonhomme Richard LHD-6 (1998-2021) Extensively damaged by fire July 2020 while under refit, judged as not worth the cost of repairing and stricken from the naval register 15 April, 2021. Scrapping at Brownsville TX.
USS Bonhomme Richard 2006 NARA: 330-CFD-DN-SD-07-02593 PHAA Bryan Niegel, USN
USS Iwo Jima LHD-7 (2001)
An LCAC exits the well deck of USS Iwo Jima LHD-7 Persian Gulf, 2006 NARA: 330-CFD-DN-SD-07-11686 MC3 John S. Skrzyniarz, USN
USS Makin Island LHD-8 (2009) and USS Bonhomme Richard LHD-6 (1998)
1984 artist’s conception, showing operations of both LCAC docking and Harrier flying. NARA: 330-CFD-DN-ST-85-00439 Ingalls ShipbuildingAnd what they actually built! USS Kearsarge LHD-3, 1999 NARA: 330-CFD-DN-SD-04-13207 CWO2 Seth Rossman, USNView of interior of well deck toward stern gate, USS Wasp LHD-3, showing 3 LCAC craft, 1998. NARA: 330-CFD-DN-SD-01-09016 PH3 Kenneth A. Pace, USN