Keel Laying Ceremony Held for 2nd Littoral Combat Ship
Navy NewsStand
Story Number: NNS060120-11
Release Date: 1/20/2006 11:33:00 AM
By Photographer's Mate 2nd Class (AW) Scott Webb, Navy News Service
MOBILE, Ala. (NNS) -- The second littoral combat ship’s (LCS 2) keel was laid during a ceremony Jan. 19, at the Austal USA Shipyards in Mobile, Ala.
LCS 2 was designed by General Dynamics. Its speed, crew compliment and mission capabilities will be similar to Freedom (LCS 1), its sister ship.
"This milestone marks a significant achievement in the LCS Program," said Rear Adm. Charles Hamilton II, program executive officer, Ships. "The LCS brings our naval forces the speed, flexibility and capability we need to face the asymmetric threats of the future."
The principal speaker at the ceremony, was the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition, the Honorable Delores Etter. Etter also had the honor of having her initials welded into a component of the modular construction arrangement that will be a part of the 417 foot long trimaran.
LCS 2 is scheduled to be commissioned in 2008.
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