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US Navy - Littoral Combat Ship LCS 18 - USS Charleston |
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class: Littoral Combat Ship - LCS; Independence
class Builder: Austal-USA, Mobile, Alabama, USA STATUS: Awarded: December 29, 2010 Laid down: June 28, 2016 Launched: September 14, 2017 Commissioned: March 2, 2019 IN SERVICE Homeport: Naval Base San Diego, California Namesake: City of Charleston, South Carolina Ships Motto: WHILE WE BREATH - WE FIGHT Technical Data: see: INFO > Independence class Littoral Combat Ship - LCS |
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 San Francisco Fleet Week, California - October 2019  San Francisco Fleet Week, California - October 2019  San Diego, California - April 2019  commissioning ceremony at Charleston, South Carolina - March 2, 2019  commissioning ceremony at Charleston, South Carolina - March 2, 2019  commissioning ceremony at Charleston, South Carolina - March 2, 2019  commissioning ceremony at Charleston, South Carolina - March 2, 2019  acceptance trials - Gulf of Mexico - July 2018  acceptance trials - Gulf of Mexico - July 2018  cutout  acceptance trials - Gulf of Mexico - July 2018  acceptance trials - Gulf of Mexico - July 2018  acceptance trials - Gulf of Mexico - July 2018  after launching at Austal USA shipyard, Mobile, Alabama - September 13, 2017  launching at Austal USA shipyard, Mobile, Alabama - September 13, 2017  launching at Austal USA shipyard, Mobile, Alabama - September 13, 2017  roll out at Austal USA shipyard, Mobile, Alabama - September 13, 2017  roll out at Austal USA shipyard, Mobile, Alabama - September 13, 2017 |
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USS Charleston (LCS 18): ... history wanted ... |
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Charleston, South Carolina: Charleston is the oldest and largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, and the principal city in the Charleston–North Charleston-Summerville Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city lies just south of the geographical midpoint of South Carolina's coastline and is located on Charleston Harbor, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean formed by the confluence of the Ashley, Cooper, and Wando rivers. Charleston had an estimated population of 134,875 in 2017. The estimated population of the Charleston metropolitan area, comprising Berkeley, Charleston, and Dorchester counties, was 761,155 residents in 2016, the third-largest in the state and the 78th-largest metropolitan statistical area in the United States. |
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