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| History | |
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| Name | Harpers Ferry |
| Namesake | Harpers Ferry, West Virginia |
| Ordered | 17 June 1988 |
| Builder | Avondale Shipyards |
| Laid down | 15 April 1991 |
| Launched | 16 January 1993 |
| Commissioned | 7 January 1995 |
| Homeport | San Diego, California |
| Identification |
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| Motto | First in Freedom |
| Status | in active service |
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| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Harpers Ferry-class dock landing ship |
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| Length | 610 ft (190 m) |
| Beam | 84 ft (26 m) |
| Draft | 21 ft (6.4 m) |
| Propulsion | Four Colt Industries, 16-cylinder diesel engines, with two shafts, 33,000 shp (25,000 kW) |
| Speed | over 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
| Boats & landing craft carried | 2 × Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCACs) |
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USS Harpers Ferry (LSD-49) is the lead ship of her class of landing ship dock of the United States Navy. This warship was named for the town of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, which, because of the U.S. arsenal there, was an important location during the Civil War. USS Harpers Ferry is assigned to the Navy's "Amphibious Group 1". The homeport of Harpers Ferry is at San Diego County, California. Harpers Ferry was previously stationed at the American Naval Base in Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan before she was relieved in 2011 by USS Germantown.
Harpers Ferry's keel was laid down on 15 April 1991, at the Avondale Shipyards in New Orleans. The ship was launched on 16 January 1993. The vessel was commissioned on 7 January 1995.