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HSV 2 Swift Delivered to U.S. Navy

The new Catamaran HSV 2 Swift was delivered to the U.S. Navy on August 13, 2003, during a celebration in Hobart,

Australia. High ranking U.S. Military officers joined with invited guests to witness the handover of the 321.5-ft. (98-m) Wave Piercing Catamaran HSV 2 Swift, Incat Hull 061.

Swift will serve operationally as an interim Mine Warfare Command and

Support Ship (MCS), and support trans- formational mine warfare modular mis- sion payload initiatives. In support of

Navy experimentation, the HSV will be used to explore concepts, capabilities and military utility associated with the advanced hull and propulsion technolo- gy integrated with advanced communi- cations in support of the Littoral Combat

Ship (LCS) program.

Main Particulars - HSV 42

Designer/Builder Incat, Hobart. Australia

Class Det Norske Veritas

Length, (o.a.) 318 ft. (97.2 m)

Length, (w.l.) 302 ft. (92 m)

Beam, (o.a.) X7 ft. (26.6 m)

Beam of Hulls 15 ft. (4.5 m)

Draft II ft. (3.4 m). loaded

Speed approx. 38 knots @ 700 tons dwt approx. 42 knots @ 350 tons dwt

For the Marine Corps, the HSV will conduct a series of limited-objective experiments, exercises, demonstrations and training events that develop interop- erability potential of high-speed vessels with causeways, watercraft, amphibious ships and other shipping.

Experimentation data will be used to

Historic USS Portland

Out of Service

The amphibious dock landing ship USS

Portland (LSD 37) was decommissioned dur- ing a ceremony on August 4, 2003, at Naval

Amphibious Base, Little Creek, Va. In its last year of service, the 32-year-old ship was under the command of Cmdr. Lawrence

Creevy.

LSD 37 was the second naval ship to bear the name Portland. The first USS Portland (CA 33), a heavy cruiser, was commissioned in 1933 and operated extensively in the Pacific

Theater during WW II. After the attack on

Pearl Harbor, Portland, with its nine, eight-in. guns, was the largest gunship in the region until late 1942. Although often outgunned by the Japanese fleet and severely damaged by a torpedo in the Battle of Guadalcanal, the ves- sel participated in almost every major naval engagement and survived the duration of the war. While operating in the Pacific Theater,

Portland was credited with sinking two destroyers, shooting down more than a dozen airplanes and assisting in the sinking of three battleships. It was also responsible for the sinking of a Japanese submarine. access the military utility of HSVs and future joint and naval military opera- tions or applications. The HSV is capa- ble of maintaining an average speed of 35 knots or greater, loaded with 500 short tons, consisting of 350 personnel and military equipment. A minimum operating range of 1,100 nm at 35 knots is required by the contract, as is a mini- mum transit range of 4,000 n.m. at an average speed of 20 knots. Furthermore, she must be capable of 24-hour opera- tions at slow speeds (3-10 knots) for experimentation with unmanned autonomous vehicles, and to support dedicated and emerging organic mine warfare missions.

The vessel, which is the fourth Incat

Wave Piercing Catamaran to enter mili- tary service, will operate with crews sta- tioned at Naval Station Ingleside, Texas, and Naval Amphibious Base Little

Creek, Va.

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