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USS Detroit underway during Acceptance Trials.

LCS

Detroit

Delivered (Photo: Lockheed Martin)

Fincantieri, through its subsidiary consortium, and it is part of a program (LCS 9), Sioux City (LCS 11), Wichita to bear the name included a Sacramen-

Fincantieri Marinette Marine (FMM), started in 2010, which comprises 11 (LCS 13), Billings (LCS 15), Indianapo- to-class fast combat support ship, an and Lockheed Martin Corporation, has units, all fully funded, on top of the two lis (LCS 17), St. Louis (LCS 19), Minne- Omaha-class light cruiser, a Montgom- delivered the future USS Detroit (LCS units delivered before 2010 (Freedom - apolis/St. Paul (LCS 21), Cooperstown ery-class cruiser and two 19th century 7) to the U.S. Navy at FMM’s shipyard LCS 1 and Forth Worth - LCS 3). The (LCS 23) and LCS 25. sloops of war. The future USS Detroit is in Marinette, Wis. Detroit is the fourth other 10 ships delivered or in production LCS 7 will be the sixth U.S. Navy scheduled to be commissioned in Detroit

Freedom-class ship delivered by the are: Milwaukee (LCS 5), Little Rock ship named USS Detroit. Previous ships on October 22, 2016.

BAE Systems Delivers Tug to Seabulk Tankers

S G BHAFT ROUNDING RUSHES

Built at BAE Systems’ Jacksonville, Fla. shipyard, the new tug Sea Power has

Are stray electrical currents destroying your delivered the tug Sea Power to Seabulk Tankers, Inc. to be used to enhance the shipper’s Jones Act coastal operation, powering barges that transport chemical bearings and seals?

and petroleum products between U.S. ports. Sea Power is a 141-ft.-long, 12,000- ?S ELF CLEANING bhp, twin-screw tug that will work in tandem with a high-speci? cation, 30,000 ?O PERATE DRY OR IN OIL dwt chemical tank barge as an articulated tug and barge unit. BAE Systems and ?G / OLD SILVER BRISTLES

Guido Perla & Associates, Inc., of Seattle, Washington, designed the vessel. ?L ITTLE OR NO MAINTENANCE

Earlier this year, the Jacksonville shipyard delivered the ? nal ship in a class of ?C AN BE SERVICED DURING OPERATION four platform supply vessels to Jackson Offshore Operators. That ship, the MV

Squall, also operates in Jones Act service to the U.S. coastal trade. ?C AN ALSO TRANSMIT INSTRUMENT SIGNALS FROM ROTOR WITHOUT

SPECIAL SLIPRINGS

SOHRE TURBOMACHINERY ® :::62+5(785%2&20?,1)2#62+5(785%2&20

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