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Tuesday, June 08, 2010

Repairs cause LCS to miss Canadian Centennial

USS FreedomThe littoral combat ship Freedom will miss the Canadian Navy’s 100th birthday party next week and instead spend more time preparing for a major fleet exercise, the Navy announced Monday.

Other U.S. Navy ships scheduled to attend, including the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan and cruiser Chosin, will still take part in the International Fleet Review scheduled for June 9-14 at Victoria, British Columbia.

The Freedom has been at San Diego since finishing up her maiden deployment April 23. A number of minor problems cropped up during her cruise, including, according to Naval Surface Forces, minor leaks “in both the port and starboard splitter gear lube oil coolers.”

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