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Ingalls To Commission Latest

Assault Ship

The U.S. Navy/Marine Corps team was scheduled to commission its newest large-deck amphibious assault ship on September 20, at

Ingalls Shipbuilding division of

Litton Industries.

USS Bataan (LHD 5), the fifth of the seven-ship WASP (LHD-1) class to be completed at Ingalls, will report for U.S. Atlantic Fleet duty and be homeported in

Norfolk, Va., as an element of

Amphibious Group TWO.

Bataan measures 844 ft. (275.3 m) long with a 106-ft. (32.2-m) beam.

Two steam propulsion plants developing a combined 70,000 hp will drive the 40,500-ton ship to speeds in excess of 20 knots.

Meyer Werft Delivers

Lambelu

Meyer Werft recently delivered the 18th passenger ship to the

Directorate General of Sea

Communication,

Jakarta/Indonesia.

Dubbed Lambelu in a ceremony before its delivery, the new vessel is the second in a new series of pas- senger ships built for Indonesia.

By 1998, Meyer Werft plans to deliver two additional vessels in the series.

Lambelu measures 481 ft. (146.5 m) long and features a 77-ft. (23.4- m) beam and a passenger capacity of 2,000.

For more information on Meyer Werft

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Lambelu main particulars length, o.a ..481 ft. (146.5 m)

Breadth ....77 ft. (23.4 m)

Draft ....19.3 ft. (5.9 m) ftnnage 14,800

DWT 3,375

Lambelu is shown, forward.

Following this vessel, Ingalls has two additional LHDs —

BonHomme Richard (LHD 6) and

Jima (LHD 7) - under contract.

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Above: LHD 5 is shown sailing in the Gulf of

Mexico during sea trials earlier this year.

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