USS Kingsville
USS Kingsville (LCS-36) will be an Independence-class littoral combat ship of the United States Navy. She will be the first ship to be named for Kingsville, Texas, which is home to Naval Air Station Kingsville.[1]
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Name: | Kingsville |
Namesake: | Kingsville, Texas |
Awarded: | 17 December 2018 |
Builder: | Austal USA |
Status: | Authorized |
General characteristics | |
Class and 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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Kingsville will be built in Mobile, Alabama by Austal USA.
References
- "Secretary of the Navy Names Independence-Variant Littoral Combat Ship USS Kingsville" (Press release). United States Navy. 4 February 2019. NNS190204-10. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
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