Tarawa Class LHA

Tarawa Class LHA (General-Purpose Amphibious Assault Ship) – 1 unit

LHA-5 – Peleliu – Commissioned: 1980 – №: 5 – Homeport: San Diego

Displacement: 39,967 tonnes full load

Length: 254 m

Beam: 40.2 m

Draft: 7.9 m

Propulsion:

2× Combustion Engineering boilers;

2× Westinghouse turbines 70,000 horsepower (52 MW);

2× propeller shafts;

1× bow thruster

Speed: 24 knots (44 km/h)

Range: 19,000 km at 20 knots (37 km/h)

Boats & landing craft carried:

4× LCU 1610; or

2× LCU and 2 LCM-8; or

17× LCM-6; or

45× LVT

Troops: 1,703

Complement: 56 officers, 874 sailors

Armament:

Mark-49 RAM missile system;

2× Vulcan Phalanx;

6× 25 mm automatic cannons;

8× 12.7 mm machine guns

Aircraft carried: Up to 19 Sea Stallions, 26 Sea Knights, or mixed airgroup 6 Harrier jump-jets

Aviation facilities: 249.9 by 36.0 m flight deck with 2 aircraft lifts

USS Tarawa (LHA-1), USS Saipan (LHA-2), USS Belleau Wood (LHA-3) and USS Nassau (LHA-4) have been decommissioned