USS Fort Worth on 22 November 2012
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | Fort Worth |
Namesake | Fort Worth |
Awarded | 23 March 2009[1] |
Builder | Marinette Marine[1][2] |
Laid down | 11 July 2009[1][2] |
Launched | 4 December 2010[1] |
Sponsored by | Kay Granger[3] |
Christened | 4 December 2010[3] |
Acquired | 6 June 2012[1][4] |
Commissioned | 22 September 2012[1] |
Homeport | San Diego[1] |
Motto | Grit and Tenacity[5] |
Honors and awards | See Awards |
Status | Active |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | Freedom-class littoral combat ship |
Displacement | 3,500 metric tons (3,900 short tons) (full load)[6] |
Length | 387 ft (118 m)[1] |
Beam | 58 ft (17.7 m)[1] |
Draft | 13.0 ft (3.9 m)[1] |
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; 4,000 mi) at 18 knots (21 mph; 33 km/h)[7] |
Endurance | 21 days (504 hours) |
Boats & landing craft carried | 11 m RHIB, 40 ft (12 m) high-speed boats |
Complement | 35–50 core crew, 75 mission crew (rotating crews) |
Armament | |
Aircraft carried | |
Notes | Electrical power is provided by 4 Isotta Fraschini V1708 diesel engines with Hitzinger generator units rated at 800 kW each. |
USS Fort Worth (LCS-3) is a Freedom-class littoral combat ship of the United States Navy. She is the first ship to be named after Fort Worth, Texas, the 13th-largest city in the United States.
On 20 June 2020, the US Navy announced that they would be taking Fort Worth out of commission in March 2022,[8] and placing her, along with Freedom, Independence, and Coronado in reserve.[9][10]
On 18 June 2021, Naval News reported that Fort Worth would be inactivated in FY 2022 and put on the Out of Commission in Reserve (OCIR) list.