![]() USS Freedom in her new Measure 32 camouflage scheme on sea trials in February 2013, before her first deployment
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Name | Freedom |
Ordered | May 2004 |
Awarded | 15 December 2004 |
Builder | Marinette Marine |
Laid down | 2 June 2005 |
Launched | 23 September 2006 |
Commissioned | 8 November 2008 |
Decommissioned | 29 September 2021 |
Homeport | San Diego |
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Motto | Fast, Focused, Fearless |
Status | Decommissioned, in reserve |
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General characteristics [1] | |
Class and type | Freedom-class littoral combat ship |
Displacement | 3,400 long tons (3,450 t) (full load) |
Length | |
Beam | 57.7 ft (17.6 m) |
Draft | 14.1 ft (4.3 m) |
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Propulsion | 4 × Rolls-Royce waterjets |
Speed | 47 knots (87 km/h; 54 mph) (sea state 3)[4] |
Range | 3,500 nmi (6,500 km; 4,000 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
Endurance | 21 days (336 hours) |
Boats & landing craft carried |
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Complement | 50 core crew, 98 or more with mission package and air detachment crew (Blue and Gold crews) |
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Electronic warfare & decoys | |
Armament |
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Aircraft carried | |
Aviation facilities | Hangar bay |
USS Freedom (LCS-1) is the lead ship of the Freedom-class littoral combat ship for the United States Navy. She is the third vessel to be so named after the concept of freedom. She is the design competitor produced by the Lockheed Martin consortium, in competition with the General Dynamics–designed USS Independence. She was officially accepted by the Supervisor of Shipbuilding Gulf Coast, on behalf of the US Navy, from the Lockheed Martin/Marinette Marine/Gibbs and Cox team, in Marinette, Wisconsin, on 18 September 2008.[5]
She is designed for a variety of missions in shallow waters, minesweeping and humanitarian relief, capable against submarines and small ships, but not designed to take on large warships. The ship is a semi-planing monohull design capable of over 40 knots (74 km/h; 46 mph).[6]
Commissioned in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on 8 November 2008, Freedom was home-ported in San Diego,[2] and assigned to Littoral Combat Ship Squadron One.[7]
On 20 June 2020, the US Navy announced that they would be taking Freedom out of commission in March 2021, and placing her, along with Independence, Fort Worth, and Coronado in reserve.[8][9] She was decommissioned on 29 September 2021.[10][11]