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Saturday, September 15, 2012

USS Fort Worth Departs for Commissioning


The Navy's newest Littoral Combat Ship, USS Fort Worth (LCS 3), sailed away from Naval Station Mayport, Fla., Sep. 13, beginning the final leg of its maiden voyage to its commissioning site in Galveston, Texas.

Fort Worth is the third LCS delivered to the Navy - the second of the steel, semi-planing monohull Freedom variant - and will be commissioned Sept. 22.

During a two-week stay in Mayport, the ship underwent a scheduled preventive maintenance availability and conducted initial Combat Support Systems Onboard Testing and TRS-3D RADAR Electronic Target Generator Testing in support of the Combat System Ship Qualification Test that will take place later this year after the ship arrives in its homeport of San Diego, Calif.

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