USS Boxer (LHD-4)

An amphibious assault ship (LHD) of the United States Navy, the USS Boxer went into U.S. operational service in 1995. She is the sixth ship to carry that name in the U.S. Navy, the first four being sailing warships and the fifth a light aircraft carrier.

She has a crew of 1174 and can carry 2070 Marines. Displacing 40,500 tons, she looks superficially like an aircraft carrier, but can only operate helicopters and short-takeoff-vertical-landing (STOVL) aircraft

In April 2009, she was assigned to Task Force 151 in the waters off Somalia.