What the heck is this ship?

Carolyn and I saw it passing through the SF bay with 2 black tugs. No name visible on the ship. This was the sharpest I was able to grab with my D70. I didn’t have a cable release handy, sigh.

**UPDATE**

BoatingSF shows two tugs leaving the bay at the same time I saw this ship with two tugs — the Lynne Marie and the Narragansett listed as TUG-WITHOUT-A-TOW. Strange.

It appears to be an LHA Amphibious Assault Ship — but whats on its deck and where is it going?

Even more: there are only 5 of them and 2 are decommed. One of those two? Can’t be the one under construction…

The answer is in comment 3!