The USS Kingsville, one of the last Independence-class littoral combat ships built for the Navy, has successfully completed acceptance trials and will become homeported in San Diego later this year.

The U.S. Navy is moving to retire several Littoral Combat Ships after barely a decade in service, an unusually early exit for frontline warships. -Conceived as fast, modular coastal combatants, the ...

Shipbuilder Austal USA delivered the final Independence-class littoral combat ship to the U.S. Navy on Friday, marking the end of a construction phase that’s lasted 15 years. The Alabama-based Austal ...

The U.S. Navy's newest littoral combat ship, the future USS Omaha (LCS-12), transits the Panama Canal and arrives at its new ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — The United States ...

Littoral Combat Ship – Why Did it Fail? – Last month, a U.S. Navy ship was stranded in Lake Erie at the Port of Cleveland following a worker’s strike. The service’s latest Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), ...

Known as LCS 29, the warship is designed for operations in both shallow waters and open seas. The Navy has retired several Freedom-class ships over maintenance costs and mission capability. The US ...

The U.S. Navy welcomed another littoral combat ship into its ranks. The USS Nantucket, a Freedom-class littoral combat ship, was commissioned Saturday, Nov. 16 at the Charlestown Navy Ship Yard in ...

Depending on how and what they're used for, the U.S. Navy’s most important assets, its ships, fall into different categories. One of the most visible, even from the shores of both America and other ...

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — The U.S. Navy christened the USS Pierre Littoral Combat Ship (LCS38) Saturday morning in a ceremony at Mobile, Alabama. This is the second ship named after Pierre, South Dakota.

Littoral combat ships are prized for their abilities in coastal areas and open ocean, but the Freedom variant was quickly ...