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&sq=Albert Einstein&lang=en&file=File:USS-Freedom-130222-N-DR144-174-crop.jpg) USS Freedom in her new Measure 32 camouflage scheme on sea trials in February 2013, before her first deployment
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| History | |
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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 |
| Identification |
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| Motto | Fast, Focused, Fearless |
| Status | Decommissioned, in reserve |
| Badge | &sq=Albert Einstein&lang=en&file=File:USS_Freedom_LCS1_Crest.png) |
| 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) |
| Installed power |
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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) |
| Sensors and processing systems |
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| Electronic warfare & decoys | |
| Armament |
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| Aircraft carried | |
| Aviation facilities | Hangar bay |
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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]
- ^ "AN/SQR-20". Deagel.com. Archived from the original on 12 August 2015. Retrieved 30 May 2015.
- ^ "LCS Squadron 1". public.navy.mil. Archived from the original on 26 February 2018. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
- ^ Trevithick, Joseph (1 July 2020). "Navy Will Mothball Its First Four Littoral Combat Ships In Nine Months If Congress Lets It". thedrive.com. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
- ^ Larter, David B. (1 July 2020). "US Navy's first 4 littoral combat ships to leave the fleet in 9 months". DefenseNews.com. Retrieved 29 August 2020.
- ^ Burgess, Richard R. (17 February 2021). "Navy Details Revised 2021 Ship Decommissioning Schedule". Seapower. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
- ^ "USS Freedom (LCS 1) Decommissions". Defense Visual Information Distribution Service. San Diego, CA. 29 September 2021. Archived from the original on 30 September 2021. Retrieved 29 September 2021.