USS Fort Worth (LCS-3)
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Fort Worth off Hawaii in November 2014
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| Name: | Fort Worth |
| Namesake: | Fort Worth, Texas |
| Awarded: | 23 March 2009 |
| Builder: | Marinette Marine |
| Laid down: | 11 July 2009 |
| Launched: | 4 December 2010 |
| Sponsored by: | Kay Granger |
| Christened: | 4 December 2010 |
| Acquired: | 6 June 2012 |
| Commissioned: | 22 September 2012 |
| Homeport: | Naval Base San Diego |
| Honors and awards: |
Battle E 2013 (LCS Crew 103 Rough Riders) |
| Status: | in active service |
| Badge: |  |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Freedom-class littoral combat ship |
| Displacement: | 3,500 metric tons (3,900 short tons) (full load) |
| Length: | 387 ft (118 m) |
| Beam: | 58 ft (17.7 m) |
| Draft: | 13.0 ft (3.9 m) |
| 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) |
| 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 16th-largest city in the United States.
The ship's name was announced 6 March 2009. This was after a long public relations campaign by United States Representative Kay Granger, former Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon R. England, and others. The ship was built by Lockheed-Martin. Her keel was laid on 11 July 2009 during a ceremony at Marinette Marine Shipyard in Marinette, Wisconsin.
Fort Worth includes additional stability improvements to deal with issues found on the first ship in the class, Freedom.
The 80% completed ship was launched by its contractor on 4 December 2010. The vessel underwent sea trials in Lake Michigan during late 2011, with the completion of these trials announced on 24 October 2011. The ship successfully completed its acceptance trials, which also took place on Lake Michigan, on 4 May 2012. The inspectors found only ten severe deficiencies during the trials, an "exponential" improvement over Freedom.
The improvements to the ship include a lengthened hull, which makes her faster than Freedom and ten percent more fuel efficient. Fort Worth was commissioned at Galveston, Texas on 22 September 2012. She set sail on a 16-month deployment in the Fall of 2014.
Fort Worth will rely on automated sensors to perform "conditions-based maintenance" and hopefully avoid the greatly overworked crew problems that Freedom had on her first deployment.
Fort Worth lacks the bow thruster mounted on Freedom.
In November 2013, Fort Worth conducted successful live-fire tests of its 57 mm and 30 mm cannons against small boat targets conducting swarm attacks. Fort Worth was moving fast through the water and assisted by an MH-60R helicopter. The ship's fire control system locked on to and fired on the small maneuvering boats in day and night situations with optical sights. The helicopter provided radar targeting which was passed on to the ship's fire control system.Fort Worth conducted additional evaluations of its surface warfare technologies in early 2014 in scenarios involving small boat swarms, engagements with its 57 mm gun, and search and seizure exercises. Evaluations were successful and validated the surface warfare mission package on the ship.
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