User:Eastshire/USS Tripoli (LHA-7)

USS Tripoli (LHA-7) will be an America-class amphibious assault ship built at Huntington Ingalls Industries in Pascagoula, Mississippi. The United States Navy ordered the Tripoli on 31 May 2012 with a contract valued at $2.38 billion. Tripoli is the third ship named for a line from the Marines' Hymn, "to the shores of Tripoli," a reference to the First Barbary War.