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style="font-weight: bold">Launched</td><td>11 November 1989</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Commissioned</td><td>9 May 1992</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Homeport</td><td><a href="/wiki/Naval_Base_San_Diego" title="Naval Base San Diego">San Diego</a>, California</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Motto</td><td><i>Deliver Liberty, Defend Freedom</i></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Status</td><td>in active service</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Badge</td><td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:USS_Ashland_LSD-48_Crest.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Ashland Crest"><img alt="Ashland Crest" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/USS_Ashland_LSD-48_Crest.png/150px-USS_Ashland_LSD-48_Crest.png" decoding="async" width="150" height="191" class="mw-file-element" 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style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">16,883 tons (full)</li> </ul></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Length</td><td>610 ft (190 m)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Beam</td><td>84 ft (26 m)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Draft</td><td>21 ft (6.4 m)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Propulsion</td><td>4 Colt Industries, 16-cylinder diesel engines, 2 shafts, 33,000 <a href="/wiki/Horsepower#Shaft_horsepower" title="Horsepower">shp</a> (25,000 kW)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Speed</td><td>over 20 <a href="/wiki/Knot_(unit)" title="Knot (unit)">knots</a> (37 km/h; 23 mph)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Boats & landing <br /> craft carried</td><td>4 <a href="/wiki/Landing_Craft_Air_Cushion" title="Landing Craft Air Cushion">LCACs</a> or 21 <a href="/wiki/LCM-6" class="mw-redirect" title="LCM-6">LCM-6</a> or up to 36 <a href="/wiki/Amphibious_Assault_Vehicle" class="mw-redirect" title="Amphibious Assault Vehicle">Amphibious Assault Vehicles</a></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Capacity</td><td>on deck: one LCM-6, two <a href="/wiki/LCPL" title="LCPL">LCPL</a> and one <a href="/wiki/Landing_Craft_Vehicle_Personnel" class="mw-redirect" title="Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel">LCVP</a></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Troops</td><td><a href="/wiki/USMC" class="mw-redirect" title="USMC">Marine</a> detachment: 402 + 102 surge</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Complement</td><td>22 officers, 391 enlisted</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Armament</td><td><ul style="list-style:none; margin:0;"> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">2 × 25 mm <a href="/wiki/M242#Naval" class="mw-redirect" title="M242">Mk 38</a> cannons</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">2 × 20 mm <a href="/wiki/Phalanx_CIWS" title="Phalanx CIWS">Phalanx</a> <a href="/wiki/CIWS" class="mw-redirect" title="CIWS">CIWS</a> mounts</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">2 × <a href="/wiki/RIM-116_Rolling_Airframe_Missile" title="RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile">Rolling Airframe Missile</a></li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">6 × .50 caliber <a href="/wiki/M2HB" class="mw-redirect" title="M2HB">M2HB</a> machine guns</li> </ul></td></tr> </tbody></table> <p><b>USS <i>Ashland</i> (LSD-48)</b> is a <a href="/wiki/Whidbey_Island-class_dock_landing_ship" title="Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship"><i>Whidbey Island</i>-class</a> <a href="/wiki/Dock_landing_ship" title="Dock landing ship">dock landing ship</a> of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">United States Navy</a>. She was the second Navy ship to be named for <a href="/wiki/Ashland_(Henry_Clay_home)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ashland (Henry Clay home)">Ashland</a>, the home of <a href="/wiki/Henry_Clay" title="Henry Clay">Henry Clay</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Lexington,_Kentucky" title="Lexington, Kentucky">Lexington, Kentucky</a>. </p><p><i>Ashland</i> was <a href="/wiki/Keel_laying" title="Keel laying">laid down</a> on 4 April 1988, by the <a href="/wiki/Avondale_Shipyards" class="mw-redirect" title="Avondale Shipyards">Avondale Shipyards</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_Orleans,_Louisiana" class="mw-redirect" title="New Orleans, Louisiana">New Orleans, Louisiana</a>; <a href="/wiki/Ship_naming_and_launching" class="mw-redirect" title="Ship naming and launching">launched</a> and christened on 11 November 1989, sponsored by Mrs. Kathleen Foley, wife of Admiral Sylvester R. Foley, Jr. (Ret.); and <a href="/wiki/Ship_commissioning" title="Ship commissioning">commissioned</a> on 9 May 1992, at New Orleans. As of April 2023, <i>Ashland</i> is homeported at <a href="/wiki/Naval_Base_San_Diego" title="Naval Base San Diego">Naval Base San Diego</a>, and assigned to <a href="/wiki/Expeditionary_Strike_Group_3" title="Expeditionary Strike Group 3">Expeditionary Strike Group 3</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=USS_Ashland_(LSD-48)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2005_rocket_attack">2005 rocket attack</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=USS_Ashland_(LSD-48)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: 2005 rocket attack"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Rocket_attacks_on_Eilat_and_Aqaba" title="Rocket attacks on Eilat and Aqaba">Rocket attacks on Eilat and Aqaba</a></div> <p>On 19 August 2005, the <i>Ashland</i> and <a href="/wiki/USS_Kearsarge_(LHD-3)" title="USS Kearsarge (LHD-3)">USS <i>Kearsarge</i></a> were <a href="/wiki/Rocket_attacks_on_Eilat/Aqaba" class="mw-redirect" title="Rocket attacks on Eilat/Aqaba">targeted</a> by three <a href="/wiki/Katyusha_rocket_launcher" title="Katyusha rocket launcher">Katyusha</a> rockets while in port in <a href="/wiki/Aqaba" title="Aqaba">Aqaba</a>, Jordan. The vessels were not hit, but one Jordanian soldier was killed and another was wounded after two rockets hit nearby docks. The third rocket landed on a taxi near the <a href="/wiki/Eilat" title="Eilat">Eilat</a> airport in <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a> but did not explode. <a href="/wiki/Rocket_attacks_on_Eilat_and_Aqaba" title="Rocket attacks on Eilat and Aqaba">Responsibility was claimed</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Abdullah_Azzam_Shaheed_Brigade" class="mw-redirect" title="Abdullah Azzam Shaheed Brigade">Abdullah Azzam Shaheed Brigade</a>, which states that it is associated with the <a href="/wiki/Al-Qaeda" title="Al-Qaeda">al-Qaeda</a> terrorist group.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The sailors aboard both warships were awarded the <a href="/wiki/Combat_Action_Ribbon" title="Combat Action Ribbon">Combat Action Ribbon</a> as a result of the attack.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Later_service">Later service</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=USS_Ashland_(LSD-48)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Later service"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In January 2007, the warship was sent to the coast of <a href="/wiki/Somalia" title="Somalia">Somalia</a> to conduct antiterrorist operations as part of the <a href="/wiki/USS_Dwight_D._Eisenhower" title="USS Dwight D. Eisenhower">USS <i>Dwight D. Eisenhower</i></a> task force. On 31 May 2008 <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i> reported that the human rights group <a href="/wiki/Reprieve_(organisation)" title="Reprieve (organisation)">Reprieve</a> said up to seventeen US Naval vessels may have been used to covertly hold captives.<sup id="cite_ref-TheGuardian20080531a_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheGuardian20080531a-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-TheGuardian20080531b_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheGuardian20080531b-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Reprieve expressed the concern the <i>Ashland</i> had been used as a receiving ship for up to 100 captives taken in East Africa. </p><p>In April 2008, <i>Ashland</i> visited <a href="/wiki/Antsiranana" title="Antsiranana">Antsiranana</a>, Madagascar.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 10 April 2010, seven suspected <a href="/wiki/Piracy_in_Somalia" class="mw-redirect" title="Piracy in Somalia">pirates</a> on a <a href="/wiki/Skiff" title="Skiff">skiff</a> shot at the <i>Ashland</i> approximately 330 nautical miles (610 km) off the coast of <a href="/wiki/Djibouti" title="Djibouti">Djibouti</a>. <i>Ashland</i> fired two rounds at the skiff from her <a href="/wiki/M242_Bushmaster#Naval" title="M242 Bushmaster">MK-38 Mod 2, 25mm gun</a>. The people on board the skiff abandoned ship as it became engulfed in flames. <a href="/wiki/Rigid-hulled_inflatable_boat" class="mw-redirect" title="Rigid-hulled inflatable boat">Rigid-hulled inflatable boats</a> from the <i>Ashland</i> rescued the six surviving individuals and brought them aboard the ship for medical treatment. The <i>Ashland</i> was not damaged and there were no injuries to the crew.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 29 November 2010 Jama Idle Ibrahim was sentenced at a federal courthouse in Norfolk, Virginia to 30 years in prison for his involvement in the April piracy attacks against the Ashland. "Today marks the first sentencing in Norfolk for acts of piracy in more than 150 years," said U.S. Attorney Neil H. MacBride.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 26 April 2017 the US Justice Department released a statement saying that Mohamed Farah, 31, of Somalia was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the attack.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Mid-life extension work on the <i>Ashland</i>, completed in 2012, included normal repair and refurbishment, as well as major alterations to several ship systems. Improvements to the ship's diesel engines, onboard networks, engineering control systems, and power management, and improved capacity for air conditioning and chilled water distribution were made. The biggest long-term change, however, involved the replacement of high-maintenance steam systems with all-electric functionality. </p><p>In November 2013, <i>Ashland</i> and <a href="/wiki/USS_Germantown_(LSD-42)" title="USS Germantown (LSD-42)">USS <i>Germantown</i></a> supported relief operations in the wake of <a href="/wiki/Typhoon_Haiyan" title="Typhoon Haiyan">Typhoon Haiyan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In August 2015, <i>Ashland</i> with portions of the <a href="/wiki/31st_Marine_Expeditionary_Unit" title="31st Marine Expeditionary Unit">31st Marine Expeditionary Unit</a> embarked conducted Defense Support to Civil Authorities (DSCA) in <a href="/wiki/Saipan" class="mw-redirect" title="Saipan">Saipan</a> after <a href="/wiki/Typhoon_Soudelor" title="Typhoon Soudelor">Typhoon Soudelor</a> passed through the Commonwealth of Northern Marianas Islands.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 25 October 2017, <i>Ashland</i> rescued two American women who were drifting at sea.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 14 March 2018, CNN did a 360° look using VR to share what it feels like to live on the <i>Ashland</i>. The 3:09-minute segment showed both sailors and marines going about their daily routines.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2018, the <i>Ashland</i> received the <a href="/wiki/Marjorie_Sterrett_Battleship_Fund_Award" title="Marjorie Sterrett Battleship Fund Award">Marjorie Sterrett Battleship Fund Award</a> for the Pacific Fleet. This award is presented annually to the ship with the highest score in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_Effectiveness_Award" title="Battle Effectiveness Award">Battle Effectiveness Award</a>, the Battle "E." </p><p>The <i>Ashland</i>, one of eight active ships in its class, is expected to remain in service and mission-capable to 2038.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In December 2020 the U.S. Navy's Report to Congress on the Annual Long-Range Plan for Construction of Naval Vessels stated that the ship was planned to be placed Out of Commission in Reserve in 2023.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In May 2022, <i>Ashland</i> was a part of the <a href="/wiki/USS_America_(LHA-6)" title="USS America (LHA-6)">USS <i>America</i></a> Amphibious Ready Group in Sasebo.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The 2022 National Defense Authorization Act blocked <i>Ashland's</i> decommissioning and retirement along with three other LSD class dock landing ships.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In April 2023, <i>Ashland</i> completed a permanent change of station arriving at <a href="/wiki/Naval_Base_San_Diego" title="Naval Base San Diego">Naval Base San Diego</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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