USS Jackson (LCS-6)
_moors_at_Naval_Station_Guantanamo_Bay_on_4_September_2016.JPG) USS Jackson in September 2016. | |
| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name: | USS Jackson |
| Namesake: | Jackson, Mississippi[1] |
| Awarded: | 29 December 2010[2] |
| Builder: | Austal USA[2] |
| Laid down: | 18 October 2012[2] |
| Launched: | 14 December 2013[2] |
| Sponsored by: | Dr. Kate Cochran[1] |
| Acquired: | 11 August 2015[2] |
| Commissioned: | 5 December 2015[1] |
| Homeport: | San Diego, California[2] |
| Status: | in active service |
| Badge: |
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| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Independence-class littoral combat ship |
| Displacement: | 2,307 metric tons light, 3,104 metric tons full, 797 metric tons deadweight[2] |
| Length: | 127.4 m (418 ft)[2] |
| Beam: | 31.6 m (104 ft)[2] |
| Draft: | 14 ft (4.27 m)[2] |
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| Speed: | 40+ knots, 47 knots (54 mph; 87 km/h) sprint |
| Range: | 4,300 nautical miles (8,000 km; 4,900 mi) at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)+ |
| Capacity: | 210 tonnes |
| Complement: | 40 core crew (8 officers, 32 enlisted) plus up to 35 mission crew |
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USS Jackson (LCS-6) is an Independence-class littoral combat ship of the United States Navy. She is the first ship to be named for Jackson, the capital of Mississippi.[1][4]
Construction began on 1 August 2011 with the first cutting of aluminum at Austal USA's Modular Manufacturing facility in Mobile, Alabama.[5] The name of the ship was announced on 5 October 2011.[6] The ship was launched on 14 December 2013.[2] Jackson was delivered to the Navy on 11 August 2015 and placed into service that day.[2]
The ship was commissioned in a 5 December 2015 ceremony in Gulfport, Mississippi.[1][7]
Jackson underwent the first of three shock trials[8] in waters off Florida on 16 June 2016, and the last being reported having been completed the week prior to 20 July 2016.[9] A charge of 10,000 pounds (4,500 kg) was set off at around 100 yards (91 m) with the ship wired with around 260 instruments to record the effects.[10]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 Church, Kathleen (7 December 2015). "USS Jackson (LCS 6) Commissioned" (Press release). Navy News Service. NNS151207-02. Retrieved 10 December 2015.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "USS Jackson (LCS 6)". Naval Vessel Register. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
- ↑ "GE Marine's LM2500 gas turbines to power USS Jackson (LCS 6)". naval-technology.com. 1 November 2012. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
- ↑ "Navy Names Littoral Combat Ships Jackson and Montgomery" (Press release). U.S. Department of Defense. 25 March 2011. 243-11. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
- ↑ "Building of LCS moves forward". UPI. 5 August 2011. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
- ↑ "U.S. Navy Christens Independence-Class Littoral Combat Ship USS Jackson". Shipbuilding Tribune. 6 October 2011. Archived from the original on 8 October 2011. Retrieved 8 October 2011.
- ↑ "Littoral combat ship USS Jackson commissioned in Gulfport". The Clarion Ledger. USA Today Network. Retrieved 2015-12-06.
- ↑ "Simulated Ship Shock Tests/Trials". Institute for Defense Analyses. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
- ↑ Ziezulewicz, Geoff (20 July 2016). "USS Jackson completes full ship shock trials". United Press International. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
- ↑ LCS Survives First Shock Test, Preps For More, Christopher P. Cavas, Defense News, 17 June 2016, accessed 20 June 2016
- This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. The entry can be found here.
External links
Media related to USS Jackson (LCS-6) at Wikimedia Commons