USS Carter Hall (LSD-50) is a Harpers Ferry-class dock landing ship of the United States Navy.

As of July 2023, Carter Hall, along with USS Bataan (LHD-5) and elements of the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, are being dispatched to U.S. Central Command in the Middle East as part of the U.S. response to Iran’s continued seizure of commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz.

Carter Hall's two-spot flight deck can land and service any helicopter in the Navy and Marine Corps inventory.

[citation needed] On 2 June 2007, Carter Hall engaged pirates after they boarded the Danish ship MV Danica White off the coast of Somalia.

[5] On 31 October 2012, Carter Hall was sent towards the Hurricane Sandy impact area in case the United States Navy was needed to support the disaster relief efforts.

[7][8][9][10] On 1 June 2020, the Navy reported that two weeks prior, several crew members assigned to Carter Hall had tested positive for COVID-19.

[13] The ship was one of several US Navy vessels present in the Atlantic near a suspected Chinese espionage balloon that was downed by the United States on 4 February 2023.

The crew had stayed out longer, (originally returning to port on February 6), within the vicinity of the sunken parts in response to the spyballoon being sunk.

[15] Due to continued tensions with Iran, the Navy deployed Carter Hall, along with amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD-5), to the Gulf area via the Red Sea, in August 2023.