USS Cooperstown

Shown here is sister-ship USS Freedom underway on sea trials in February 2013 before her first deployment
History
United States
Name: Cooperstown
Namesake: Village of Cooperstown
Awarded: 29 December 2010[1]
Builder: Marinette Marine[1]
Laid down: 14 August 2018[2]
Status: Under construction
General characteristics
Class and type: Freedom-class littoral combat ship
Length: 378 ft (115 m)
Speed: >40 knots (46 mph; 74 km/h)

USS Cooperstown (LCS-23) will be a Freedom-class littoral combat ship of the United States Navy.[1][3] It will be the first ship in naval service named after Cooperstown, New York.[3][4]

U.S. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced the naming of USS Cooperstown on 25 July 2015 during a ceremony at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. Mabus was part of a program honoring baseball players who served in World War II.[5]

Marinette Marine was awarded the contract to build the ship on 29 December 2010.[1] Marinette Marine is building the Cooperstown at its Marinette, Wisconsin shipyard.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Cooperstown (LCS-23)". Naval Vessel Register. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  2. ↑ "Team Freedom Lays Keel on Nation's 23rd Littoral Combat Ship" (Press release). Lockheed Martin. 14 August 2018. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  3. 1 2 "Navy Names Littoral Combat Ship" (Press release). U.S. Department of Defense. 26 July 2015. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  4. ↑ "Navy Names Littoral Combat Ship USS Cooperstown". National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. 25 July 2015. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  5. ↑ "Navy to commission USS Cooperstown". Cooperstown Crier. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  6. ↑ "Start Of Construction on LCS 23 (Cooperstown)" (PDF). The Beacon. Fincantieri Marinette Marine (Summer 2017): 3. 31 July 2017. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
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