USS Sioux City (LCS-11) | |
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Shown here is sister-ship USS Freedom underway | |
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Name: | Sioux City |
Namesake: | Sioux City, Iowa |
Builder: | Marinette Marine |
General characteristics | |
Displacement: | 2862 tons (full load) |
Length: | 378.3 ft (115.3 m) |
Beam: | 57.4 ft (17.5 m) |
Draft: | 13.0 ft (3.7 m) |
Propulsion: | 2 Rolls-Royce MT30 36 MW gas turbines, 2 Colt-Pielstick diesel engines, 4 Rolls-Royce waterjets |
Speed: | 45 knots (52 mph; 83 km/h) (sea state 3) |
Range: | 3,500 nmi (6,500 km) at 18 knots (21 mph; 33 km/h)[1]1,500 nmi (2,800 km) at 50 knots (58 mph; 93 km/h), 4,300 nmi (8,000 km) at 20 knots (23 mph; 37 km/h) --> |
Endurance: | 21 days (336 hours) |
Boats & landing craft carried: | 11 m RHIB, 40 ft (12 m) high-speed boats |
Complement: | 15 to 50 core crew, 75 mission crew (Blue and Gold crews) |
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Notes: | Electrical power is provided by 4 Isotta Fraschini V1708 diesel engines with Hitzinger generator units rated at 800 kW each. |
USS Sioux City (LCS-11) will be a Freedom class littoral combat ship of the United States Navy. [2] It will be the first ship named after Sioux City, the fourth-largest city in Iowa.
References[]
- ↑ "US Navy Fact File: LITTORAL COMBAT SHIP CLASS – LCS". http://www.navy.mil/navydata/fact_display.asp?cid=4200&tid=1650&ct=4. Retrieved 17 June 2012.
- ↑ Bret Hayworth, "U.S. Navy Names New Ship 'USS Sioux City'," Sioux City Journal, 15 February 2012.
- LCS-11 Press Release, Lockheed Martin.
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