USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6)
USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6) is a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship of the U.S. Navy commissioned in 1998. She is designed to embark, deploy and land elements of a Marine landing force. On 12 July 2020, a fire started on a lower deck while the ship was undergoing maintenance at Naval Base San Diego. It took four days for firefighters to extinguish the fire, which injured at least 63 sailors and civilians.
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USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6) is a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship of the U.S. Navy commissioned in 1998. She is designed to embark, deploy and land elements of a Marine landing force. On 12 July 2020, a fire started on a lower deck while the ship was undergoing maintenance at Naval Base San Diego. It took four days for firefighters to extinguish the fire, which injured at least 63 sailors and civilians and severely damaged the ship. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. Navy leaders decided to decommission and scrap the ship because repairs were estimated to take up to seven years and cost up to USD 3. 2 billion. Some of the ship’s salvageable parts will be removed and stored for use in other ships. The contract to build her was awarded to Ingalls Shipbuilding on 11 December 1992, and her keel was laid down on 18 April 1995. She was launched on 14 March 1997, delivered to the Navy on 12 May 1998, and commissioned on 15 August 1998. Her next deployment was in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, beginning 17 January 2003 and lasting to 26 July 2003.
She deployed as part of Operation Enduring Freedom from 1 December 2001 to 18 June 2002. From 23 May to November 2007, she joined up with two U. S. Navy aircraft carriers, John Cennis and Nimitz, to carry out air exercises off the coast of Iran. Her helicopters flew supplies into various areas of Indonesia, as well as evacuating the wounded following the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and its subsequent tsunamis. On 4 January 2005, the ship helped airlift relief supplies to Sumatra, Indonesia, in Operation Unified Assistance. On a port visit in Guam on 28 July 2008, she and her Expeditionary Strike Group were ordered to help in relief efforts in the Indian Ocean following the December 2004 earthquake. The ship is the third ship to bear the name first given by John Paul Jones to his Continental Navy frigate, named in French \”Good Man Richard\” in honor of Benjamin Franklin.
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