The U.S. Navy commissioned its latest littoral combat ship (LCS), the USS Manchester (LCS-14), during a ceremony in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on May 26, the service said in a statement.
The future USS Manchester is the 12th littoral combat ship to enter service with the U.S. Navy and the seventh of the Independence-variant design.
The ship successfully completed acceptance trials in December 2017 and departed the Austal USA shipyard in Mobile, Alabama for the commissioning ceremony
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