USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS-10)
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Gabrielle Giffords being launched at the Austal USA shipyard in Mobile, Alabama in February 2015.
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| Name: | Gabrielle Giffords |
| Namesake: | Gabrielle Giffords |
| Awarded: | 16 March 2012 |
| Builder: | Austal USA |
| Laid down: | 16 April 2014 |
| Launched: | 26 February 2015 |
| Sponsored by: | Roxanna Green,Jill Biden |
| Christened: | 13 June 2015 |
| Acquired: | 23 December 2016 |
| Homeport: | Mobile, Alabama |
| Status: | Special, in service |
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| Class and type: | Independence-class littoral combat ship |
| Displacement: | 2,307 metric tons light, 3,104 metric tons full, 797 metric tons deadweight |
| Length: | 127.4 m (418 ft) |
| Beam: | 31.6 m (104 ft) |
| Draft: | 14 ft (4.27 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2× gas turbines, 2× diesel, 4× waterjets, retractable Azimuth thruster, 4× diesel generators |
| Speed: | 40 kn + (46 mph; 74 km/h), 47 knots (54 mph; 87 km/h) sprint |
| Range: | 4,300 nmi (8,000 km; 4,900 mi) at 20 kn + (23 mph; 37 km/h) |
| Capacity: | 210 tonnes |
| Complement: | 40 core crew (8 officers, 32 enlisted) plus up to 35 mission crew |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
Sea Giraffe 3D Surface/Air RADAR Bridgemaster-E Navigational RADAR AN/KAX-2 EO/IR sensor for GFC |
| Electronic warfare & decoys: |
EDO ES-3601 ESM 4× SRBOC rapid bloom chaff launchers |
| Armament: | BAE Systems Mk 110 57 mm gun 4× .50-cal guns (2 aft, 2 forward) Evolved SeaRAM 11 cell missile launcher Mission modules |
| Aircraft carried: | 2× MH-60R/S Seahawks MQ-8 Fire Scout |
USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS-10) is an Independence-class littoral combat ship of the United States Navy. The ship is named after former United States Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot along with eighteen other people during the 2011 shooting in Tucson, Arizona. The ship's name was announced by Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus on 10 February 2012.
Gabrielle Giffords will be the 16th U.S. naval ship to be named for a woman by the United States Navy, and the 13th U.S. naval ship since 1850 to be named after a living person. The ship was delivered to the U.S. Navy on 23 December 2016.
In 2002, the U.S. Navy initiated a program to develop the first of a fleet of littoral combat ships. The Navy initially ordered two trimaran hulled ships from General Dynamics, which became known as the Independence-class littoral combat ships after the first ship of the class, USS Independence. Even-numbered U.S. Navy littoral combat ships are built using the Independence-class trimaran design, while odd-numbered ships are based on a competing design, the conventional hull Freedom-class littoral combat ship. The initial order of littoral combat ships involved a total of four ships, including two of the Independence-class design.
On 29 December 2010, the Navy announced that it was awarding Austal USA a contract to build ten additional Independence-class littoral combat ships. On 10 February 2012, Naval Secretary Ray Mabus announced that LCS-10, the fifth Independence-class ship to be built, would be named USS Gabrielle Giffords. Secretary Mabus also announced that the ship's sponsor would be Roxanna Green, the mother of Christina-Taylor Green, age 9, who was killed in the Tucson shooting that wounded Giffords in January 2011.
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