The USS Kingsville, one of the last Independence-class littoral combat ships built for the Navy, was christened Saturday in Corpus Christi, Texas. Cmdr. Ludwig Mann III, Kingsville’s commanding ...

USS Coronado (LCS-4), a U.S. Navy Independence-class littoral combat ship, returns to homeport Naval Base San Diego after ...

The USS Kingsville, one of the last Independence-class littoral combat ships built for the Navy, has successfully completed acceptance trials and will become homeported in San Diego later this year.

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Shipbuilder Austal USA delivered the final Independence-class littoral combat ship to the U.S. Navy on Friday, marking the end of a construction phase that’s lasted 15 years. The Alabama-based Austal ...

Depending on how and what they're used for, the U.S. Navy’s most important assets, its ships, fall into different categories. One of the most visible, even from the shores of both America and other ...

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The U.S. Navy welcomed another littoral combat ship into its ranks. The USS Nantucket, a Freedom-class littoral combat ship, was commissioned Saturday, Nov. 16 at the Charlestown Navy Ship Yard in ...

Littoral Combat Ship – Why Did it Fail? – Last month, a U.S. Navy ship was stranded in Lake Erie at the Port of Cleveland following a worker’s strike. The service’s latest Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), ...

Known as LCS 29, the warship is designed for operations in both shallow waters and open seas. The Navy has retired several Freedom-class ships over maintenance costs and mission capability. The US ...

Littoral combat ships are prized for their abilities in coastal areas and open ocean, but the Freedom variant was quickly ...