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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. USS New York
(LPD-21), the fifth San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock, is the
sixth ship of the United States Navy to be named after the state of New
York. The New York has a crew of 360, and can also carry up to 700
Marines. The ship is notable for using steel that was salvaged from the
World Trade Center, after it was destroyed in the September 11 attacks.
The ship is the first to be designed fully from the CAD-screen up to
support all three of the Marines' primary mobility capabilities - the
Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV), Landing Craft Air Cushion and
MV-22B Osprey. Shortly after 11 September 2001, Governor of New York
George E. Pataki wrote a letter to Secretary of the Navy Gordon R.
England requesting that the Navy bestow the name USS New York on a
surface warship involved in the War on Terrorism in honor of September
11's victims.
