Galicia (L51) is a Galicia-class landing platform dock (LPD) of the Spanish Navy and is the seventh ship to bear this name.

Galicia is tasked with transporting Spanish marines, humanitarian aid missions and general logistic support.

The Galicia class spawned from the joint Enforcer design with Spain's lead ship being authorised on 29 July 1994.

[2] Within the ship there is 1,010 m2 (10,900 sq ft) of parking space for up to 130 armoured personnel carriers (APCs) or 33 main battle tanks (MBTs).

[2] Both ships have capacity for 700 t (690 long tons) of ammunition and stores spread out within the 3,500 m2 (38,000 sq ft) of cargo space between the storerooms, flight deck and hangar.

Named Galicia for the autonomous community of Spain, the LPD was launched on 21 July 1997 and was commissioned by the Spanish Navy (Armada Española) on 30 April 1998.

[1] Galicia performed humanitarian aid operations to Central America following Hurricane Mitch from November 1998 to January 1999.

The LPD made two deployments, one in 2010 and another in 2011, as part of Operation Atalanta fighting piracy in the Indian Ocean and off the coast of Somalia.