 USS St. Louis during her commissioning ceremony on 8 August 2020 | |
| Career (United States) |  |
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| Name: | St. Louis |
| Namesake: | St. Louis |
| Awarded: | 29 December 2010[1] |
| Builder: | Marinette Marine[1] |
| Laid down: | 17 May 2017[2] |
| Launched: | 15 December 2018[3] |
| Sponsored by: | Barbara Broadhurst Taylor |
| Christened: | 15 December 2018[3] |
| Acquired: | 6 February 2020[4] |
| Commissioned: | 8 August 2020[5] |
| Identification: |
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| Motto: | Gateway to Freedom |
| Status: | Active |
| Badge: |
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| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Freedom-class littoral combat ship |
| Displacement: | 3,500 metric tons (3,900 short tons) full load[6] |
| Length: | 378.3 ft (115.3 m) |
| Beam: | 57.4 ft (17.5 m) |
| Draft: | 13.0 ft (4.0 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)[7] |
| 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) |
| Armament: |
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| Aircraft carried: |
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| Aviation facilities: | Flight Deck, Hangar Bay |
| Notes: | Electrical power is provided by 4 Isotta Fraschini V1708 diesel engines with Hitzinger generator units rated at 800 kW each. |
USS St. Louis (LCS-19) is a Freedom-class littoral combat ship of the United States Navy. She is the seventh ship in naval service named after St. Louis, Missouri.[8]
Design[]
  Aerial view |
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In 2002, the US Navy initiated a program to develop the first of a fleet of littoral combat ships.[9] The Navy initially ordered two monohull ships from Lockheed Martin, which became known as the Freedom-class littoral combat ships after the first ship of the class, USS Freedom.[9][10] Odd-numbered U.S. Navy littoral combat ships are built using the Freedom-class monohull design, while even-numbered ships are based on a competing design, the trimaran hull Independence-class littoral combat ship from General Dynamics.[9] The initial order of littoral combat ships involved a total of four ships, including two of the Freedom-class design.[9] St. Louis is the tenth Freedom-class littoral combat ship to be built.
Construction and career[]
St. Louis was built in Marinette, Wisconsin by Marinette Marine.[11] The ship was christened and launched on 15 December 2018.[3] She was commissioned on 8 August 2020 and is assigned to Littoral Combat Ship Squadron Two.
References[]
- ā 1.0 1.1 "St. Louis (LCS-19)". Naval Vessel Register. http://www.nvr.navy.mil/NVRSHIPS/DETAILS/LCS19.HTM.
- ā "Lockheed Martin-Led Team Lays Keel on 19th Littoral Combat Ship". Lockheed Martin. 17 May 2017. http://news.lockheedmartin.com/2017-05-17-Lockheed-Martin-Led-Team-Lays-Keel-on-19th-Littoral-Combat-Ship.
- ā 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Littoral Combat Ship 19 (St. Louis) Christened And Launched". Lockheed Martin. 15 December 2018. https://news.lockheedmartin.com/2018-12-15-Littoral-Combat-Ship-19-St-Louis-Christened-and-Launched.
- ā "Navy Accepts Delivery of Future USS St. Louis (LCS 19)". United States Navy. 7 February 2020. NNS200207-13. https://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=112045.[dead link]Template:Cbignore
- ā "U.S. Navy Littoral Combat Ship USS St. Louis Joins the Fleet". United States Navy. 8 August 2020. https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/News-Stories/display-news/Article/2305979/us-navy-littoral-combat-ship-uss-st-louis-joins-the-fleet/.
- ā "Freedom Class LCS Littoral Combat Ship". http://www.militaryfactory.com/ships/detail.asp?ship_id=USS-Freedom-LCS1.
- ā "Navy Names Littoral Combat Ship". U.S. Navy. 20 April 2015. http://www.public.navy.mil/surfor/lcsron1/Pages/navy-names-littoral-combat-ship.aspx#.VXs6BPlVhBc.
- ā O'Rourke, Ronald (4 May 2010). "Navy Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) Program: Background, Issues, and Options for Congress". Congressional Research Service. http://www.dodbuzz.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/CRS-LCS-May-2010.pdf.
- ā "U.S. Navy Fact File: Littoral Combat Ships". U.S. Navy. http://www.navy.mil/navydata/fact_display.asp?cid=4200&tid=1650&ct=4.
- 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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