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USS Nassau (LHA-4)

Tarawa-class amphibious assault ship
USS Nassau (LHA-4) was a Tarawa-class amphibious assault ship. When active, she was capable of transporting more than 3,000 United States Navy and United States Marine Corps personnel. Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi, laid the... Wikipedia
Launched: January 21, 1978
Length: 833′
Armament: 2 × RAM launchers; 4 × 25 mm Mk 38 cannons; 2 × Phalanx CIWS; 5 ×.50-caliber M2HB machine guns
Awarded: 6 November 1970
Commissioned: 28 July 1979
Complement: 82 officers, 882 enlisted men