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| Name: | Augusta |
| Namesake: | Augusta |
| Awarded: | 18 September 2018[1] |
| Builder: | Austal USA |
| Laid down: | 30 July 2021[2] |
| Launched: | 23 May 2022 |
| Sponsored by: | Leigh Ingalls Saufley |
| Christened: | 17 December 2022[3] |
| Acquired: | 12 May 2023[4] |
| Commissioned: | 30 September 2023[2] |
| Homeport: | Naval Base San Diego |
| Identification: | Hull number: LCS-34 |
| Motto: | Protecting the Frontier[5] |
| Status: | In active service |
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| Class & type: | Independence-class littoral combat ship |
| Displacement: | 2,307 metric tons light, 3,104 metric tons full, 797 metric tons deadweight |
| Length: | 127.4 m (418 ft) |
| Beam: | 31.6 m (104 ft) |
| Draft: | 14 ft (4.27 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2× gas turbines, 2× diesel, 4× waterjets, retractable Azimuth thruster, 4× diesel generators |
| Speed: | 40 knots (74 km/h; 46 mph)+, 47 knots (54 mph; 87 km/h) sprint |
| Range: | 4,300 nautical miles (8,000 km; 4,900 mi) at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)+ |
| Capacity: | 210 tonnes |
| Complement: | 40 core crew (8 officers, 32 enlisted) plus up to 35 mission crew |
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USS Augusta (LCS-34) is an Independence-class littoral combat ship of the United States Navy.[1][6] She is the second ship to be named for Augusta, Maine.[6]
Design[]
In 2002, the United States Navy initiated a program to develop the first of a fleet of littoral combat ships.[7] The Navy initially ordered two trimaran hulled ships from General Dynamics, which became known as the Independence-class littoral combat ship after the first ship of the class, USS Independence.[7] Even-numbered US Navy littoral combat ships are built using the Independence-class trimaran design, while odd-numbered ships are based on a competing design, the conventional monohull Freedom-class littoral combat ship.[7] The initial order of littoral combat ships involved a total of four ships, including two of the Independence-class design.[7] On 29 December 2010, the Navy announced that it was awarding Austal USA a contract to build ten additional Independence-class littoral combat ships.[8][9]
Construction and career[]
Augusta was built in Mobile, Alabama by Austal USA.[10] Austal USA delivered the ship to the Navy, in Mobile on 12 May 2023.[4] She joined the active fleet with a commissioning ceremony in Eastport, Maine on 30 September 2023.[11] Augusta arrived at her homeport of San Diego on 30 October 2023.[12]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Augusta (LCS-34)". http://www.nvr.navy.mil/NVRSHIPS/DETAILS/LCS34.HTM.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "USS Augusta (LCS 34) Littoral Combat Ship". https://www.ussaugustacommissioning.org/ship.
- ↑ "Austal USA celebrates christening of the future USS Augusta (LCS 34)". 17 December 2022. https://usa.austal.com/news/LCS-34-Christening. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Austal USA delivers the future USS Augusta (LCS 34) to the U.S. Navy". 12 May 2023. https://usa.austal.com/news/LCS-34-Delivery. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
- ↑ "USS Augusta (LCS 34)". U.S. Army. 15 December 2022. https://tioh.army.mil/Catalog/Heraldry.aspx?HeraldryId=19368&CategoryId=11045&grp=5&menu=Uniformed%20Services.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Secretary of the Navy Names Independence Variant Littoral Combat Ship After Capital of Maine". United States Navy. 31 January 2019. NNS190131-10. https://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=108476.
- ↑ Lundquist, Edward H. (11 January 2011). "Explaining the LCS Multi-ship Buy". https://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/explaining-the-lcs-multi-ship-buy/.
- ↑ Osborn, Kris (27 June 2014). "Navy Engineers LCS Changes". https://www.military.com/dodbuzz/2014/06/27/navy-engineers-lcs-changes.
- ↑ "Austal USA Delivers the Future USS Mobile (LCS 26) to the U.S. Navy". 9 December 2020. https://usa.austal.com/news/LCS-26-Delivery.
- ↑ "USS Augusta (LCS34) Commissioning". 30 September 2023. https://www.dvidshub.net/webcast/32605/.
- ↑ Hand, Vance (30 October 2023). "USS Augusta (LCS 34) Arrives at Homeport in San Diego". https://www.dvidshub.net/news/456825/uss-augusta-lcs-34-arrives-homeport-san-diego.
- This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. The entry can be found here.
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