LHA-7 Tripoli

[surfgun]

San Diego has a fresh flat top.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?sto...91844337938398

[surfgun]

Tripoli, transits the Straits of Magellan.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?sto...composer=false

[surfgun]

Tripoli departs Pascagoula.
https://m.facebook.com/HuntingtonIng...pe=3&source=48

[surfgun]

Now a commissioned warship.
https://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=113549

[JRT]

It will be interesting if they will still keep LHA-8 as an LHA since it will have a welldeck.

So far that still does seem to be the case, and I would be curious to know the logic as to why USN has designated PCU Bougainville (LHA-8) as the third ship in the USS America (LHA-6) class rather than as the first ship in a new class of LHD regardless that PCU Bougainville is significantly different from LHA-6 and LHA-7.

[surfgun]

Tripoli has delivered to the Navy.
https://newsroom.huntingtoningalls.c...7Z282nhBFHKcII

[surfgun]

Reportedly now, the trials have concluded.
https://newsroom.huntingtoningalls.c...-tripoli-lha-7

[surfgun]

Tripoli completes trials.
https://seapowermagazine.org/future-...ilders-trials/

[surfgun]

Tripoli is to be christened on Saturday 16th or September.
http://seapowermagazine.org/stories/...5-Tripoli.html

[SteveDaPirate]

Crazy to see them slide such a beast of a ship sideways like that!

[surfgun]

Video of the launching of Tripoli .
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1nQ715coKbI

[surfgun]

Tripoli has been launched.
http://seapowermagazine.org/stories/...2-Tripoli.html

https://media.defense.gov/2017/May/0...-N2201-001.JPG

[Squirrel]

Video: placing the deckhouse.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_HBLob2TQEQ

Freakin awesome! Such a massive piece of metal.

[surfgun]

Video: placing the deckhouse.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_HBLob2TQEQ

[surfgun]

A video of moving large hull segments of LHA 7.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_xY8mz1Ti-Y