![]() USS Bonhomme Richard on 8 August 2017
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Name | Bonhomme Richard |
Namesake | USS Bon Homme Richard (CV-31) |
Ordered | 11 December 1992 |
Builder | Ingalls Shipbuilding |
Laid down | 18 April 1995 |
Launched | 14 March 1997 |
Commissioned | 15 August 1998 |
Decommissioned | 15 April 2021 |
Stricken | 15 April 2021 |
Homeport | San Diego |
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Motto | I have not yet begun to fight! |
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Status | Scrapped |
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Class and type | Wasp-class amphibious assault ship |
Displacement | 40,358 long tons (41,006 t) full load |
Length | 844 ft (257 m) |
Beam | 105 ft (32 m) |
Draft | 27 ft (8.2 m) |
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Speed | 22 kn (41 km/h; 25 mph) |
Range | 9,500 nmi (17,600 km; 10,900 mi) at 18 kn (33 km/h; 21 mph) |
Well deck dimensions: | 266-by-50-foot (81 by 15.2 m) by 28-foot (8.5 m) high |
Boats & landing craft carried | |
Troops | 1,894 troops (plus 184 surge) Marine Detachment |
Complement | 1,108 |
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USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6) was a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship of the United States Navy commissioned on 15 August 1998. Like the previous five Wasp-class ships, Bonhomme Richard was designed to embark, deploy, and land elements of a Marine Corps landing force in amphibious assault operations by helicopter, landing craft, and amphibious vehicle, and, if needed, to act as a light aircraft carrier.
LHD-6 was the third ship of the United States Navy to bear the name first given by John Paul Jones to his Continental Navy frigate, named in French "Good Man Richard" in honor of Founding Father Benjamin Franklin, the publisher of Poor Richard's Almanack who at the time served as U.S. ambassador to France.[2]
On 12 July 2020, a fire started on a lower vehicle-storage deck while the ship was undergoing maintenance at Naval Base San Diego. It took four days for firefighters to extinguish the fire, which injured at least 63 sailors and civilians and severely damaged the ship. After a lengthy investigation into the cause of the fire, a sailor was charged with arson but was acquitted at trial.[3][4] Repairs to the ship were estimated to take up to seven years and cost up to $3.2 billion, so the ship was decommissioned on 15 April 2021 and sold for scrap.
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