USS Billings
 Shown here is sister-ship USS Freedom underway on sea trials in February 2013 before her first deployment | |
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| Name: | Billings |
| Namesake: | Billings, MT |
| Awarded: | 4 March 2013[1] |
| Builder: | Marinette Marine |
| Laid down: | 2 November 2015[1] |
| Status: | Under construction |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Freedom-class littoral combat ship |
| Displacement: | 3,500 metric tons (3,900 short tons) full load[2] |
| Length: | 378.3 ft (115.3 m) |
| Beam: | 57.4 ft (17.5 m) |
| Draft: | 13.0 ft (4.0 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 Rolls-Royce MT30 36 MW gas turbines, 2 Colt-Pielstick diesel engines, 4 Rolls-Royce waterjets |
| Speed: | 45 knots (52 mph; 83 km/h) (sea state 3) |
| Range: | 3,500 nmi (6,500 km) at 18 knots (21 mph; 33 km/h)[3] |
| Endurance: | 21 days (336 hours) |
| Boats & landing craft carried: | 11 m RHIB, 40 ft (12 m) high-speed boats |
| Complement: | 15 to 50 core crew, 75 mission crew (Blue and Gold crews) |
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| Aircraft carried: | |
| Aviation facilities: | Flight Deck, Hangar Bay |
| Notes: | Electrical power is provided by 4 Isotta Fraschini V1708 diesel engines with Hitzinger generator units rated at 800 kW each. |
USS Billings (LCS-15) will be a Freedom-class littoral combat ship of the United States Navy.[1] It will be the first ship in naval service named after Billings, Montana.[4]
Marinette Marine was awarded the contract to build the ship on March 4, 2013.[1] Construction began on October 20, 2014, with an expected delivery date of 2017.[5]
References
- 1 2 3 4 "Billings". Naval Vessel Register. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
- ↑ "Freedom Class LCS Littoral Combat Ship". Retrieved 18 June 2015.
- ↑ "Navy to name combat ship USS Billings". Billings Gazette. 6 June 2013. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
- ↑ "Start Of Construction on LCS 15 Billings" (PDF). The Beacon (Marinette Marine) (Holiday 2014): 3. 17 December 2014. Retrieved 19 June 2015.
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