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USS Marinette (LCS-25) is a Freedom-class littoral combat ship of the United States Navy. She is the first commissioned ship, and second overall in naval service to be named after Marinette, Wisconsin (the place where it was built), the other being Marinette (YTB-791) , a Natick -class large fleet tugboat .
Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Gary Roughead takes a tour of Marinette Marine Shipyard, 2008. Fincantieri Marinette Marine (FMM) is an American shipbuilding firm in Marinette, Wisconsin. Marinette Marine was a subsidiary of Manitowoc Marine Group of Wisconsin from 2000 to 2009, when it was sold to Fincantieri Marine Group. [1]
Marinette Marine was awarded the contract to build Beloit on 18 September 2018. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] She was christened and launched on 7 May 2022 at the shipyard in Marinette, Wisconsin . [ 2 ] The ship's sponsor is Beloit-born Major General Marcia Anderson , (USAR, Ret.).
The Freedom class is one of two classes of the littoral combat ship program, built for the United States Navy. [20]The Freedom class was proposed by a consortium formed by Lockheed Martin as "prime contractor" and by Fincantieri (project) through the subsidiary Marinette Marine (manufacturer) as a contender for a fleet of small, multipurpose warships to operate in the littoral zone.
The first ship is expected to cost about $1.3 billion.
Fort Worth was built by Lockheed Martin at Marinette Marine shipyard in Marinette, Wisconsin. [4] [17] Her keel was laid in a ceremony on 11 July 2009. [18] The 80% completed ship was launched by the contractor on 4 December 2010.
In Wisconsin, part of $100 million in Navy funding that's being provided to Marinette Marine is being used for retention bonuses at the shipyard, whose past employee retention was described by Del ...
She is the design competitor produced by the Lockheed Martin consortium, in competition with the General Dynamics–designed USS Independence. She was officially accepted by the Supervisor of Shipbuilding Gulf Coast, on behalf of the US Navy, from the Lockheed Martin/Marinette Marine/Gibbs and Cox team, in Marinette, Wisconsin, on 18 September ...