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Navy Holds Keel-Laying Ceremony For Future USS Cincinnati Littoral Combat Ship

April 19 2017

USA

Austal USA laid the keel for its 10th littoral combat ship for the U.S. Navy earlier this month, reports the Navy NewsStand.

The keel-laying and authentication ceremony for the Cincinnati (LCS-20) was held on April 10 at Austal USA's shipyard in Mobile, Ala., the Navy noted in a Monday release.

The milestone marks the joining of the ship's components and ceremonial beginning of the ship, the service said.

Austal USA builds the Independence-class littoral ships. Another...

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