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September 7th, 2011
OVER 100 9/11 FAMILIES, SURVIVORS & UNIFORMED SERVICE MEMBERS ABOARD USS NEW YORK ARRIVE AT NY HARBOR TO MARK 10th ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11 ATTACKS
Forged with Steel from the World Trade Center, the USS New York Arrives to
Commemorate the 10th Anniversary of September 11, 2001
New York, NY…September 7, 2011 – On September 8, 2011, the U.S. Navy will mark the remembrance of the 10th Anniversary of September 11, 2001, with the arrival of the USS New York (LPD 21) in New York Harbor. USS New York will render honors as it passes the WTC site at 8:00a.m.
Aboard the ship are over one hundred 9/11 families, survivors, FDNY, NYPD, and Port Authority PD who boarded the ship in Norfolk, VA and are aboard for the cruise to New York City.
Before docking in the New York Harbor, the crew of the USS New York will render honors as they pass the WTC Site around 8:00 AM.
WHAT: September 11th Families Aboard the USS New York to Dock in NY Harbor in Remembrance of the 10th Anniversary of 9/11
WHEN: Thursday September 8 at 7:45 AM
WHERE: North Cove Marina, behind the World Financial Center
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August 28th, 2011
By Larry Shaughnessy, CNN Pentagon ProducerAugust 28, 2011 8:39 p.m. EDT
Aboard The Uss Wasp (CNN) — The Navy is sending three amphibious ships towards the New York and New England region in anticipation that the ships may be called upon to assist civilian authorities responding to Hurricane Irene, according to a spokesman for the Navy on the USS Wasp.
The Wasp, according to Lt. Cmdr. Jim Krohne, will be joined by the USS Oak Hill and the USS New York — a ship built in part with steel from the wreckage of the World Trade Center. Now the ship-born-of-a-man-made-tragedy is prepared to help its namesake city respond to a natural disaster.
The three ships are all capable of providing helicopters and floating landing craft for a wide array of humanitarian response, including search-and-rescue, road and debris clearing, emergency communications, emergency medical support, and even an air-traffic control if needed.
Krohne said the three ships — part of a larger unit called Amphibious Task Force 26 — are expected to arrive off the Northeast coast on Monday. They will be able to start flying aid in as the ships get within 120 miles from the area they would be helping.
But the whole mission is still a matter of preparedness, because no official orders have been given to the Navy to start having the ships join the relief effort.
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October 20th, 2009
Updated: Monday, 19 Oct 2009, 2:44 PM EDT
Published : Monday, 19 Oct 2009, 1:32 PM EDT
NORFOLK, Va. – The Navy announced Monday that the USS New York, built with 7.5 tons of steel from the World Trade Center in her bow, will make its first visit to its homeport, Naval Station Norfolk, on Thursday.
The San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship left the Northrop Grumman shipyard in Avondale, Lousiana, on October 13th, bound for New York City, where it will be commissioned on November 7th.
The USS New York (LPD-21), named to commemorate the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, is 684 feet long and can carry up to 800 Marines. It has a flight deck that can handle helicopters and the MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft.
The New York revives a name held by at least four other Navy ships, including a Spanish-American War-era cruiser, a battleship that served in World Wars I and II and a nuclear submarine retired from the fleet in 1997.
LPD-21 is the fifth San Antonio-class ship built. The first four in the series – the USS San Antonio, USS New Orleans, USS Mesa Verde and USS Green Bay – are in service. Four other ships in the class are under construction: Somerset and Anchorage at the Avondale yard, and Arlington and San Diego at Northrop Grumman’s yard in Pascagoula, Miss.
Arlington and Somerset also carry names connected to the Sept. 11 attacks: Arlington for the attack on the Pentagon and Somerset for the Pennsylvania county in which United Airlines Flight 93 crashed after being hijacked.
Source, AP
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The future USS New York LPD-21 under construction at Northrop Grumman Ship Systems’ shipyard in Avondale, LA, will be the fifth amphibious transport dock of the San Antonio class. The ship was named New York after the state and incorporates in its construction steel salvaged from the World Trade Centers. Her ship motto is "Never Forget." "We're very proud that the twisted steel from the WTC towers will soon be used to forge an even stronger national defense," New York Gov. George Pataki spoke in 2002. "The USS New York will soon be defending freedom and combating terrorism around the globe, while also ensuring that the world never forgets the evil attacks of Sept. 11 and the courage and strength New Yorkers showed.” This will be the seventh U.S. ship named New York.
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