USS Essex (LHD-2) is a Wasp -class Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD) in service with the United States Navy. The amphibious assault ship was built at what is now Huntington Ingalls Industries in Pascagoula, Mississippi. She was launched 23 February 1991 and commissioned on 17 October 1992 while moored at Naval Air Station (NAS) North Island.

The LSD came as a result of a British requirement during World War II for a vessel that could carry large landing craft across the seas at speed. The design was developed and built in the US for the Royal Navy and the US Navy, with the US Navy originally classifying these ships as Mechanized artillery transports (APM) , then changing them to LSDs.

USS Essex (LHD-2) is a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship commissioned on 17 October 1992, after being built at what is now the Northrop Grumman Shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Dick Cheney, then the Secretary of Defense in the first Bush Administration, spoke at the commissioning ceremony; the Essex was moored at North Island NAS, next to ...

直升機起降登陸艦（lhd）是一種多用途兩棲攻擊艦，能作为直升机航空母舰来进行旋翼航空器（直升机和倾转旋翼机）起降并同时拥有能支持登陆艇的坞舱 [1] 。

2025年3月6日 · Amphibious warships are designed to support the Marine Corps tenets of Operational Maneuver From the Sea (OMFTS) and Ship to Objective Maneuver (STOM). They must be capable of sailing in harm's way...

2019年4月10日 · 通用两栖攻击舰（LHA）偏重于航空方向，以直升机、短距/垂直起降飞机为主，机库容积大，载机多，像直升机航母。 代表舰有美国“塔拉瓦”级、“美国”级，法国“西北风”级等。 多功能两栖攻击舰（LHD）更侧重水面登陆能力，坞舱大机库小，可以容纳更多的登陆艇和气垫船。 代表舰美国“黄蜂”级，它是海军现役两栖攻击舰主力，建造了12艘。

LHD 8 is the first U.S. Navy amphibious assault ship to replace steam boilers with gas turbines, and the first Navy surface ship to be equipped with both gas turbines and an Auxiliary Propulsion...

USS Essex (LHD 2) is the second ship to be commissioned in the WASP-class of multipurpose amphibious assault ships. The principle mission of Essex is to conduct prompt,...

USS Makin Island (LHD-8), a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship, is the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Makin Island, target of the Marine Raiders' Makin Island raid early on in the United States' involvement in World War II.

Kearsarge began its second deployment on April 15, 1997, relieving USS Nassau (LHA 4) on station off the coast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire) in support of Operation Guardian Retrieval on May 2, 1997.