PASCAGOULA, Miss., Feb. 15 (UPI) -- Huntington Ingalls Industries has launched a new San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship for the U.S. Navy, the future USS Portland.
The vessel, which can carry 800 Marines and their equipment, is the 11th LPD of its class by HII and was transferred from a land-level facility on Saturday to a dry dock, which was then flooded allowing her to float off the blocks at an HII facility in Mississippi, the Navy reported.