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Type, class: Littoral
Combat Ship - LCS; Freedom class Builder: Marinette Marine Corporation, Marinette, Wisconsin, USA STATUS: Awarded: December 29, 2010 Laid down: October 27, 2011 Christened + Launched: December 18, 2013 Commissioned: November 21, 2015 Decommissioned: September 8, 2023 Fate: laid up at Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility (NISMF), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Homeport: Naval Station Mayport, Florida (former) Namesake: City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin Ship's Motto: STRENGHT FREEDOM - 1846 Technical Data: see: INFO > Freedom class Littoral Combat Ship - LCS |
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 decommissioning ceremony at Naval Station Mayport, Florida - September 8, 2023  Caribbean Sea - November 2022  departing Naval Station Mayport, Florida - October 2022  Naval Station Newport, Rhode Island - July 2022  Fleet Week New York - May 2022  Manta, Ecuador - March 2022  Caribbean Sea - February 2022  Ponce, Puerto Rico - January 2022  departing Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - January 2022  Atlantic Ocean - December 2021  Atlantic Ocean - October 2019  Atlantic Ocean - October 2019  Atlantic Ocean - October 2019  Naval Submarine Base New London, Groton, Connecticut - September 2019  Atlantic Ocean - June 2019  Atlantic Ocean - June 2019  Atlantic Ocean - June 2019  Atlantic Ocean - June 2019  An MQ-8B Fire Scout unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 22 (HSC-22) conducts flight operations with USS Milwaukee (LCS 5) - Atlantic Ocean - June 2019  An MQ-8B Fire Scout UAV (HSC-22) conducts flight operations with USS Milwaukee - Atlantic Ocean - June 2019  An MQ-8B Fire Scout UAV (HSC-22) conducts flight operations with USS Milwaukee - Atlantic Ocean - June 2019  An MQ-8B Fire Scout UAV (HSC-22) conducts flight operations with USS Milwaukee - Atlantic Ocean - June 2019  Atlantic Ocean - June 2019  Staten Island, New York - May 2019  Mayport, Florida - March 2019  Mayport, Florida - March 2019  Mayport, Florida - March 2019  Mayport, Florida - March 2019  Maryland Fleet Week, Baltimore - October 2018  Maryland Fleet Week, Baltimore - October 2018  Maryland Fleet Week, Baltimore - October 2018  Maryland Fleet Week, Baltimore - October 2018  Maryland Fleet Week, Baltimore - October 2018  Maryland Fleet Week, Baltimore - October 2018  Maryland Fleet Week, Baltimore - October 2018  USS Milwaukee (LCS 5) fires an AGM-114L Longbow Hellfire missile during a live-fire missile exercise off the coast of Virginia - May 11 2018  USS Milwaukee (LCS 5) fires an AGM-114L Longbow Hellfire missile during a live-fire missile exercise off the coast of Virginia - May 11 2018  Atlantic Ocean - September 2016  Atlantic Ocean - September 2016  Naval Station Mayport, Florida - June 2016  Naval Station Mayport, Florida - June 2016  Naval Station Mayport, Florida - June 2016  in dry dock at BAE Systems, Jacksonville, Florida - March 2016  in dry dock at BAE Systems, Jacksonville, Florida - March 2016  in dry dock at BAE Systems, Jacksonville, Florida - March 2016  Naval Station Mayport, Florida - February 2016  undated  commissioning ceremony - Milwaukee, Wisconsin - November 21, 2015  commissioning ceremony - Milwaukee, Wisconsin - November 21, 2015  commissioning ceremony - Milwaukee, Wisconsin - November 21, 2015  acceptance trials - September 2015  acceptance trials - September 2015  acceptance trials - September 2015  christening and launching ceremony at Marinette Marine, Wisconsin - December 18, 2013  christening and launching ceremony at Marinette Marine, Wisconsin - December 18, 2013  christening and launching ceremony at Marinette Marine, Wisconsin - December 18, 2013  prepared for launch at Fincantieri Marinette Marine, Wisconsin - December 2013  prepared for launch at Fincantieri Marinette Marine, Wisconsin - December 2013  fitted on the launching slipway at Marinette Marine, Wisconsin - December 2013  move-out to the launching facility at Marinette Marine, Wisconsin  move-out to the launching facility at Marinette Marine, Wisconsin  move-out to the launching facility at Marinette Marine, Wisconsin  move-out to the launching facility at Marinette Marine, Wisconsin |
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USS Milwaukee (LCS 5): Over the 2015 Labor Day weekend holiday, it was reported that Milwaukee generated waves greater than five feet tall during test runs near Door County's Chambers Island which damaged more than 40 boats. Milwaukee was still in the custody of Marinette Marine at the time of the incident and was conducting pre-commissioning acceptance trials. In June 2016, the Coast Guard announced that their investigation was complete and that no enforcement action would be taken against any of the parties involved. Milwaukee completed her acceptance trials prior to 1 November 2015 and was commissioned in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on 21 November 2015. She has improved systems as well as mission modules compared to USS Freedom and USS Independence, the first two Littoral Combat Ships. Her keel was laid down on 27 October 2011. Lockheed VP Joe North has said that starting with Milwaukee, the Lockheed LCS design is "done, locked and stable". This is after thirty or so changes from USS Fort Worth on top of hundreds of changes from USS Freedom. One of the improvements for Milwaukee is specially designed waterjets that replace the commercial versions used on previous Littoral Combat Ships. On 11 December 2015, on its way to San Diego from Halifax, Nova Scotia, the vessel experienced a "complete loss of propulsion" and was towed to Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek, Virginia. On 23 February 2016, CNN reported an update on the status of Milwaukee. In that update Navy Lt. Rebecca Haggard stated that Milwaukee "is designed to operate with gas turbine and diesel engines, which can operate in tandem or independently, In the case of Milwaukee, when switching from one system to the other, a clutch failed to disengage as designed. Instead, the clutch remained spinning and some of the clutch gears were damaged." Lt. Haggard also stated that quick action by the crew prevented more serious problems and the damaged clutch was repaired in Virginia. On 30 December 2016, Milwaukee participated in a homeport shift ceremony that took place at Naval Station Mayport. The ship was previously based out of Naval Base San Diego. She is assigned to Littoral Combat Ship Squadron Two. On May 16 2018, Milwaukee fired four "Longbow" Hellfire missiles at Fast Inshore Attack Craft (FIAC) targets, as part of an Experimental platform development programme. In 2021, the navy decided against decommissioning Milwaukee alongside several other older Freedom-class ships due to Milwaukee's active testing of a new anti-submarine mission package. On 2 April 2022, Milwaukee returned to Mayport following a deployment to the 4th Fleet. On 29 July 2022, a major electrical fire damaged the ship while she was docked in Jacksonville. On 19 October 2022, Milwaukee left Mayport for her second deployment in 2022. source: wikipedia |
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Milwaukee ... is the largest city in the state of Wisconsin and the fifth-largest city in the Midwestern United States behind Chicago, Illinois; Columbus, Ohio; Indianapolis, Indiana; and Detroit, Michigan. The seat of Milwaukee County, it is on Lake Michigan's western shore. Ranked by its estimated 2019 population of 590,157, Milwaukee is the 31st largest city in the United States and the fourth-largest city situated along one of the Great Lakes, behind Toronto, Chicago, and Mississauga. It is the main cultural and economic center of the Milwaukee metropolitan area which had a population of 2,043,904 in the 2014 census estimate. It is the fourth-most densely populated metropolitan area in the Midwest, surpassed only by Chicago, Minneapolis-St. Paul and Detroit, respectively. Milwaukee is considered a "Gamma -" global city as categorized by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network with a regional GDP of over $105 billion. The first recorded inhabitants of the Milwaukee area are the Algonquin and Siouan peoples. French Catholic Jesuits, who ministered to Native Americans and fur traders, were the first Europeans to pass through the area. In 1818, the French Canadian explorer Solomon Juneau established a permanent settlement, and in 1846, Juneau's town combined with two neighboring towns to incorporate as the city of Milwaukee. Large numbers of German immigrants arrived during the late 1840s, after the German revolutions, with Poles and other immigrants from eastern Europe arriving in the following decades. Milwaukee is known for its brewing traditions that began with the German immigrants. In the mid-twentieth century large numbers of African Americans moved to Milwaukee from southern states for work during the Great Migration. African Americans from Chicago descended from those who were part of the Great Migration have continued to move to the north side of Milwaukee since then. Milwaukee's east side has attracted a population of Russians and other Eastern Europeans who began migrating in the 1990s after the end of the Cold War. Many Hispanics of mostly Puerto Rican and Mexican heritage live on the south side of Milwaukee. Beginning in the early 21st century, the city has been undergoing its largest construction boom since the 1960s. Major new additions to the city in the past two decades include the Milwaukee Riverwalk, the Wisconsin Center, Miller Park, The Hop (streetcar system), an expansion to the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, and Pier Wisconsin, as well as major renovations to the UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena. The Fiserv Forum opened in late 2018 and hosts sporting events and concerts. Summerfest, the largest music festival in the world, is also a large economic engine and cultural attraction for the city. In 2018, Milwaukee was named "The Coolest City in the Midwest" by Vogue magazine. source: wikipedia |
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