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USS Richard M. McCool (LPD-29)

San Antonio Class Amphibious Transport Dock:
  • Laid down, 12 April 2019, at Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, MS.
  • Launched, 7 January 2022
  • Christened, 11 June 2022
    Specifications:
    Displacement 25,000 t.(fl)
    Length 684'
    Beam 105'
    Draft 23 ft.
    Speed 22 kts.
    Complement 33 Officers, 411 Enlisted
    Troop Accommodations 66 Officers, 625 Enlisted
    Mission Systems
    Vehicles/Cargo (Net): Three Vehicle Decks (2323 sq m)
    Two Cargo/Ammo Magazines (708 cu m)
    Cargo Fuel, JP-5 (1190 cu m) , MOGAS (38 cu m)
    Two LCACs
    Medical
    Two Operating Rooms
    24 Person Hospital Ward
    100 Casualty Overflow Capacity:
    Aviation Facilities
    Hangar - "O" Level, Maintenance Facilities for; One CH-53E, or Two CH-46s, or One MV-22, or Three UH/AH-1s
    Landing - Two CH-53s, or Four AH/UH-1s, or Four CH-46s, or Two MV-22s, or One AV-8B Harrier:
    Main Propulsion
    4 - Medium Speed Turbocharged Marine Diesels
    2 - Shafts
    2 - Single Reversing Reduction Gears
    2 - Inboard Rotating (top) Fixed Pitch Propellers
    Electric Plant
    5 - 2500 KW Ship Service Marine Diesel Generators
    5 - Main Ship Service 60 Hz SWBS
    3 - Ship Service 400 Hz SWBS
    3 - 60 to 400 Hz solid State Frequency changers
    Zonal 60 Hz Power distribution system
    Advanced Degaussing System
    Auxiliaries
    7 - 700 KW Non-CFC Air conditioning Plants
    5 - 12000 GPD Reverse Osmosis Desalination Plants
    10 - 1000 GPM Navy Standard Firepumps
    2 - HP Air Compressors
    3 - LP Air Compressors
    3 - Deballast Air Compressors
    Navigation
    Digital Flux Gate Magnetic Compass
    AN/WSN-7(V)1 Inertial Navigation System
    AN/WQN-2 Doppler Sonar Velocity Log System
    AN/UQN-4A Sonar Sounding Set, Dead Reckoning System
    Navigation Telex System
    AN/SSN-6 NAVSSI
    Armament
    1 - MK 41, 16 Cell VLS, (Space & Weight)
    2 - MK 31 Mod 0 RAM Launchers
    2 - MK 46 Mod 1 30mm Machine Guns
    2 - MK 26 Mod 17 .50 Cal Machine Guns
    Command & Control
    AN/SPQ-12(V) Radar Display Dist. Distribution System
    MK 2 SSDS
    AN/USQ-119C(V)27 JMCIS
    AN/KSQ-1 Amphibious Assault Direction System
    MK 91, 2 Channel MFCS
    AN/USG-2 CEC
    Radar Systems
    AN/SPS-48E
    AN/SPQ-9B
    AN/SPS-73
    EW & Decoy Systems
    AN/SLQ-25A NIXIE
    AN/SLQ-32Q(V)2
    MK 36 SRBOC
    MK 53 / NULKA
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    Richard M. McCool
    10092902    		 159k Richard M. McCool (LPD-29) keel laying ceremony at Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, MS., 12 April 2019.
    Left, Shana McCool and Kate Oja, ship sponsors of the future USS Richard M. McCool (LPD-29), speak about their grandfather during the keel authentication ceremony for the ship at Huntington Ingalls Industries Pascagoula shipyard 12 April 2019. Then a Navy captain, McCool received the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions in rescuing survivors from a sinking destroyer and for saving his own landing support ship during an enemy attack while injured.
    U.S. Navy photo 190412-N-BR740-1054: by Samantha Crane    		 Society of Sponsors of the United States Navy  
    Richard M. McCool
    10092901    		 88k Richard M. McCool (LPD-29) launching at Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, MS., 7 January 2022
    Ingalls Shipbuilding photo from Seapower Magazine, January 2022    		 Lee Wahler
    Richard M. McCool
    10092903    		 296k Christening of Richard M. McCool (LPD-29) at Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, MS., 11 June 2022. The ship's co-sponsors, Shana McCool and Kate Oja, McCool's granddaughters, break the traditional bottles of Champagne across the ships bow.
    Ingalls Shipbuilding photos    		 Dale Hargrave
    Richard M. McCool
    10092904    		 88k
    LCS(L)(3)-122
    1005012203    		 35k Front and back of the Medal of Honor medallion given by the family of LT. Richard M. McCool, USN Jr., Commanding Officer USS LCS(L)(3)-122 to Bill Mason. Gordon Stutrud
    There is no DANFS history for USS Richard M. McCool (LPD-29) at NavSource
    Lieutenant Richard Miles McCool, Jr. United States Navy Medal of Honor Citation
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
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