LPD 22 delivered to Navy

PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- Huntington Ingalls Industries delivered the company's sixth amphibious transport dock, San Diego (LPD 22), to the Navy at a brief ceremony at Ingalls Shipbuilding Monday. The ship recently completed acceptance sea trials with the Navy's Board of Inspection and Survey observing. Ingalls' test and trials team tested the ship's main propulsion, steering, communications suite and deck missions systems. Some of the crew members were aboard for acceptance trials; the full crew will move aboard the ship the first week of January. The 684-foot long LPD 22 is scheduled to be commissioned in the spring of 2012 in San Diego. Its principal mission is to deploy the combat and support elements of Marine Expeditionary Units and Brigades. (Source: Huntington Ingalls, 12/19/11)