USS Green Bay (LPD-20)

	USS Green Bay (LPD 20) is underway from Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding Avondale Operations in New Orleans.
Name:	USS Green Bay
Namesake:	The city & bay of Green Bay, Wisconsin
Ordered:	30 May 2000
Builder:	Northrop Grumman Ship Systems
Laid down:	11 August 2003
Launched:	11 August 2006
Christened:	15 July 2006
Acquired:	29 August 2008
Commissioned:	24 January 2009
Homeport:	San Diego, California
Motto:	Statum Bello Invictus Maneo (“Stand and Fight, Remain Unvanquished”)
Status:	in active service, as of 2024
Badge:
General characteristics
Class and type:	San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock
Displacement:	25,000 tons full
Length:	208.5 m (684 ft) overall, ; 201.4 m (661 ft) waterline
Beam:	31.9 m (105 ft) extreme,; 29.5 m (97 ft) waterline
Draft:	7 m (23 ft)
Propulsion:	Four Colt-Pielstick diesel engines, two shafts, 40,000 hp (30 MW)
Speed:	22 knots (41 km/h)
Boats and landing; craft carried:	Two LCACs (Landing Craft, Air Cushion) ; or one Landing Craft Utility; ; 14 Expeditionary Fighting Vehicles
Capacity:	700 (66 officers, 633 enlisted Marines); with a surge to 800 total.
Complement:	28 officers, 332 enlisted sailors
Armament:	Two 30 mm Bushmaster II cannons - for surface threat defense; ; two Rolling Airframe Missile launchers - for air defense
Aircraft carried:	Four CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters or two MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft may be launched or recovered simultaneously, with many more that this carried.

For other ships of the same name, see USS Green Bay.

USS Green Bay (LPD-20) is a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock. She is the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the city and bay of Green Bay, Wisconsin. This ship is designed to deliver a fully-equipped battalion of 800 Marines.

The contract to build her was awarded to Northrop Grumman Ship Systems of New Orleans, Louisiana, on 30 May 2000 and her keel was laid down on 11 August 2003. Green Bay was christened on 15 July 2006 and commissioned on 24 January 2009 with Commander Joseph R. Olson, a native of Madison, Wisconsin, in command. Rose Magnus, the wife of the Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps, General Robert Magnus, served as the ship’s sponsor. Green Bay is assigned to the U.S. Pacific Fleet^[1], and her home port is Naval Base San Diego.^[2]

References

↑ Commissioning. City of Green Bay
↑ Liewer, Steve, "Navy's New Dock Ship To Be Based In San Diego", San Diego Union-Tribune, January 24, 2009.

This article contains information from the Naval Vessel Registry and various other U.S. Navy Web sites.

Career
USS Green Bay (LPD 20) is underway from Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding Avondale Operations in New Orleans.
Name:	USS Green Bay
Namesake:	The city & bay of Green Bay, Wisconsin
Ordered:	30 May 2000
Builder:	Northrop Grumman Ship Systems
Laid down:	11 August 2003
Launched:	11 August 2006
Christened:	15 July 2006
Acquired:	29 August 2008
Commissioned:	24 January 2009
Homeport:	San Diego, California
Motto:	Statum Bello Invictus Maneo (“Stand and Fight, Remain Unvanquished”)
Status:	in active service, as of 2024^[update]
Badge:
General characteristics
Class and type:	San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock
Displacement:	25,000 tons full
Length:	208.5 m (684 ft) overall, 201.4 m (661 ft) waterline
Beam:	31.9 m (105 ft) extreme, 29.5 m (97 ft) waterline
Draft:	7 m (23 ft)
Propulsion:	Four Colt-Pielstick diesel engines, two shafts, 40,000 hp (30 MW)
Speed:	22 knots (41 km/h)
Boats and landing craft carried:	Two LCACs (Landing Craft, Air Cushion) or one Landing Craft Utility; 14 Expeditionary Fighting Vehicles
Capacity:	700 (66 officers, 633 enlisted Marines); with a surge to 800 total.
Complement:	28 officers, 332 enlisted sailors
Armament:	Two 30 mm Bushmaster II cannons - for surface threat defense; two Rolling Airframe Missile launchers - for air defense
Aircraft carried:	Four CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters or two MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft may be launched or recovered simultaneously, with many more that this carried.