USS Cleveland (LCS-31)
USS Cleveland (LCS-31) will be a Freedom-class littoral combat ship of the United States Navy.[2] She will be the fourth commissioned ship in naval service named after Cleveland, the second-largest city in Ohio.[3] Marinette Marine was awarded the contract to build the ship on 15 January 2019.[1]
 Shown here is sister-ship USS Freedom underway on sea trials in February 2013 before her first deployment | |
| History | |
|---|---|
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| Name: | Cleveland |
| Namesake: | Cleveland |
| Awarded: | 15 January 2019[1] |
| Builder: | Marinette Marine |
| Status: | On order |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Freedom-class littoral combat ship |
| Displacement: | 3,410 metric tons (3,760 short tons) full load[1] |
| Length: | 388 ft (118 m)[1] |
| Beam: | 58 ft (18 m)[1] |
| Draft: | 14 ft (4.3 m)[1] |
| Speed: | >40 knots (46 mph; 74 km/h) |
| Complement: | 9 officers, 41 enlisted[1] |
References
- "Cleveland (LCS-31)". Naval Vessel Register. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
- "Navy Statement on Littoral Combat Ship" (Press release). NAVSEA. 15 January 2019. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
- Tim Ryan (19 February 2019). "Congressman Tim Ryan Announces Details on Forthcoming USS Cleveland" (Press release). United States House of Representatives. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
- 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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