Jumped on my buddy Vlad's boat out of Sayreville around 7...headed to our usual trolling spots that have been producing for us off of Flynn's...had some real nice marks but nothin but blues...headed off to the Rocks and again Blues...went a little further south away from the fleet and finally hooked up with a keeper striper...landed another short in the same area a couple minutes later and thought things might turn on...but that was it for the stripes...all blues from there on....a little disappointed after reading the great reports but still great day...marked plenty of bait out there....some picts included...check out the plane on the back of the carrier.
USS Wasp (LHD-1)
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For other ships of the same name, see USS Wasp.
Career
Name: USS Wasp
Awarded: 28 February 1984
Builder: Ingalls Shipbuilding
Laid down: 30 May 1985
Launched: 4 August 1987
Commissioned: 29 July 1989
Homeport: Norfolk, Virginia
Motto: First in the Fleet
Status: in active service, as of 2010[update]
Badge:
General characteristics
Class and type: Wasp-class amphibious assault ship
Displacement: 40,532 long tons (41,182 t) full load
Length: 844 ft (257 m)
Beam: 106 ft (32 m)
Draft: 26.5 ft (8.1 m)
Propulsion: Steam turbines, 70,000 shp (52 MW)
2 × Boilers, 600 psi (4.1 MPa)
2 × shafts
Speed: 23 knots (26 mph; 43 km/h)
Range: 9,500 nmi (17,600 km) at 20 kn (23 mph; 37 km/h)
Troops: Up to 2,200 Marines
Complement: 1,075 officers and enlisted
Armament: • 2 × NATO Sea Sparrow missile systems
• 2 × Rolling Airframe Missile systems
• 2 × Phalanx CIWS
• 3 × 25 mm Mk 38 cannons
• .50-cal M2HB machine guns
Aircraft carried: Variable by mission:
• 12 × CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters
• 4 × CH-53E Super Stallion helicopters
• 6 × AV-8B Harrier attack aircraft
• 3 × UH-1N Huey helicopters
• 4 × AH-1Z Viper helicopters
• MV-22 Osprey VTOL tiltrotor aircraft
USS Wasp (LHD 1) is a U.S. Navy multipurpose amphibious assault ship, the tenth to bear the name, the flagship of the Second Fleet and the lead ship of her class. She was built by the Ingalls Shipbuilding division of Litton in Pascagoula, Mississippi. The Navy-Marine Corps team's newest amphibious warship has as its primary mission the support of a Marine Landing Force. USS Wasp and her sister ships are the first specifically designed to accommodate new Landing Craft, Air Cushion (LCAC) for fast troop movement over the beach and Harrier II (AV-8B) Vertical/Short Take-Off and Landing (V/STOL) jets which provide close air support for the assault force. Wasp, which is 257 m long (843 ft) with a beam of 32 meters (105 ft), also accommodates the full range of Navy and Marine Corps helicopters, conventional landing craft, and amphibious vehicles.
