USS St. Louis during her commissioning ceremony on 8 August 2020
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | St. Louis |
Namesake | St. Louis |
Awarded | 29 December 2010 [4] |
Builder | Marinette Marine [4] |
Laid down | 17 May 2017 [5] |
Launched | 15 December 2018 [1] |
Sponsored by | Barbara Broadhurst Taylor |
Christened | 15 December 2018 [1] |
Acquired | 6 February 2020 [2] |
Commissioned | 8 August 2020 [3] |
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Motto | Gateway to Freedom |
Status | Active |
Badge | |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Freedom-class littoral combat ship |
Displacement | 3,500 metric tons (3,900 short tons) full load [7] |
Length | 378.3 ft (115.3 m) |
Beam | 57.4 ft (17.5 m) |
Draft | 13.0 ft (4.0 m) |
Propulsion | 2 Rolls-Royce MT30 36 MW gas turbines, 2 Colt-Pielstick diesel engines, 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) [6] |
Endurance | 21 days (336 hours) |
Boats & landing craft carried | 11 m RHIB, 40 ft (12 m) high-speed boats |
Complement | 15 to 50 core crew, 75 mission crew (Blue and Gold crews) |
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Aircraft carried | |
Aviation facilities | Flight Deck, Hangar Bay |
Notes | Electrical power is provided by 4 Isotta Fraschini V1708 diesel engines with Hitzinger generator units rated at 800 kW each. |
USS St. Louis (LCS-19) is a Freedom-class littoral combat ship of the United States Navy. She is the seventh ship in naval service named after St. Louis, Missouri. [8]
In 2002, the US Navy initiated a program to develop the first of a fleet of littoral combat ships. [9] The Navy initially ordered two monohull ships from Lockheed Martin, which became known as the Freedom-class littoral combat ships after the first ship of the class, USS Freedom. [9] [10] Odd-numbered U.S. Navy littoral combat ships are built using the Freedom-class monohull design, while even-numbered ships are based on a competing design, the trimaran hull Independence-class littoral combat ship from General Dynamics. [9] The initial order of littoral combat ships involved a total of four ships, including two of the Freedom-class design. [9] St. Louis is the tenth Freedom-class littoral combat ship to be built.
St. Louis was built in Marinette, Wisconsin by Marinette Marine. [11] The ship was christened and launched on 15 December 2018. [1] She was commissioned on 8 August 2020 and is assigned to Littoral Combat Ship Squadron Two.