USS Milwaukee (LCS-5)

For other ships of the same name, see USS Milwaukee.
USS Milwaukee (LCS-5)
Milwaukee slides into the Menominee River during christening, December 2013.
History
United States
Name: Milwaukee
Namesake: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Awarded: 29 December 2010[1]
Builder: Marinette Marine, Marinette, Wisconsin
Laid down: 27 October 2011
Launched: 18 December 2013
Sponsored by: Sylvia M. Panetta
Commissioned: 21 November 2015
Homeport: Naval Base San Diego
Status: in active service, as of 2016
Badge:
General characteristics
Class & type: Freedom-class littoral combat ship
Displacement: 3,500 metric tons (3,900 short tons) full load[2]
Length: 378.3 ft (115.3 m)[1]
Beam:
  • 43 ft (13 m) wl
  • 57.4 ft (17.5 m) (extreme)[1]
Draft:
  • 13 ft (4.0 m) (navigational)[1]
  • 14 ft (4.3 m) (draft limit)
Installed power:
Propulsion: 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)[3]
Endurance: 21 days (336 hours)
Boats & landing
craft carried:		 11 m RHIB, 40 ft (12 m) high-speed boats
Complement: 50 core crew, 75 with mission crew (Crews rotate through hulls)
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • EADS TRS-3D C-band radar
  • X-Band Navigational Radar
  • S-Band Navigational Radar
Electronic warfare
& decoys:
  • WBR 2000
  • Super RBOCs
  • Nulka decoy launchers
Armament:
Aircraft carried:
Notes: Electrical power is provided by 4 Isotta Fraschini V1708 diesel engines with Hitzinger generator units rated at 800 kW each.

USS Milwaukee (LCS-5) is a Freedom-class littoral combat ship of the United States Navy.[4] She is the fifth ship to be named for the city of Milwaukee,[1][5] the largest city in Wisconsin. She was laid down on 27 October 2011 at Marinette Marine (Lockheed Martin), Marinette, Wisconsin; launched on 18 December 2013; sponsored by Mrs. Sylvia M. Panetta, wife of Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta;[6] and commissioned on 21 November 2015.

History

Milwaukee has completed her acceptance trials [7] and was commissioned in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on 21 November 2015.[8] She has improved systems as well as mission modules compared to USS Freedom and USS Independence, the first two Littoral Combat Ships. Her keel was laid down on 27 October 2011. Lockheed VP Joe North has said that starting with Milwaukee, the Lockheed LCS design is "done, locked and stable".[9] This is after thirty or so changes from USS Fort Worth on top of hundreds of changes from USS Freedom.[10] One of the improvements for Milwaukee is specially designed waterjets that replace the commercial versions used on previous Littoral Combat Ships.[11]

Over the 2015 Labor Day weekend holiday, it was reported that Milwaukee generated waves greater than five feet tall during test runs near Door County's Chambers Island which damaged more than 40 boats.[12]

On 11 December 2015, on its way to San Diego from Halifax, Nova Scotia, the vessel experienced a "complete loss of propulsion" and was towed to Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek, Virginia.[13]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Milwaukee". Naval Vessel Register. Retrieved 6 August 2011.
  2. ↑ "Littoral Combat Ship Class - LCS". America's Navy. US Navy. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
  3. ↑ "LCS Littoral Combat Ship". Retrieved 2009-03-08.
  4. ↑ "Marinette Marine receives $376M Navy contract". The Business Journal. 18 March 2011. Retrieved 30 May 2015.
  5. ↑ Mabus, Ray (18 March 2011). "Announcement of LCS 5 and LCS 7 Names" (PDF). Marinette, Wisconsin: United States Navy. Retrieved 30 May 2015.
  6. ↑ Evans, Mark L. (10 August 2015). "Milwaukee V (LCS-5)". Naval History and Heritage Command. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
  7. ↑ "The Future USS MILWAUKEE". Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  8. ↑ "USS Milwaukee (LC5) Commissioning". Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  9. ↑ Ewing, Philip (10 January 2012). "SNA: LM’s LCS enters its ‘cookie cutter’ phase.". DoD Buzz. Retrieved 30 May 2015.
  10. ↑ Fabey, Michael (30 November 2012). "Redeeming Freedom: U.S. Navy Seeks to Renew Faith in LCS Fleet". Aviation Week. Retrieved 30 May 2015.
  11. ↑ "New Waterjets Could Propel Littoral Combat Ship to Greater Speeds". Science Daily. 5 February 2013. Retrieved 30 May 2015.
  12. ↑ "Naval ship damages more than 40 boats over Labor Day weekend". wbay.com.
  13. ↑ Larter D (12 December 2015). "The Navy’s newest ship breaks down, limps into port". Navy Times. Retrieved 12 December 2015.

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.

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