USS Freedom (LCS-1)

	USS Freedom shows off her new Measure 32 camouflage scheme on sea trials in February 2013, before her first deployment
History
United States
Name	Freedom
Ordered	May 2004
Awarded	15 December 2004
Builder	Marinette Marine
Laid down	2 June 2005
Launched	23 September 2006
Commissioned	8 November 2008
Decommissioned	29 September 2021
Homeport	San Diego
Identification	MMSI number: 369875000; Callsign: NFRE; ; Hull number: LCS-1;
Motto	Fast, Focused, Fearless
Status	Decommissioned, in reserve
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General characteristics
Class and type	Freedom-class littoral combat ship
Displacement	3,400 long tons (3,450 t) (full load)
Length	387.6 ft (118.1 m) LOA; 351 ft (107 m) LWL;
Beam	57.7 ft (17.6 m)
Draft	14.1 ft (4.3 m)
Installed power	CODAG:; 2 × Rolls-Royce MT30 gas turbines (36 MW (48,000 hp) each); 2 × FM Colt-Pielstick 16PA6B STC diesel engines (6,480 kW (8,690 hp) each); Auxiliary power:; 4 × Isotta-Fraschini V1708 diesel engines, Hitzinger generator units (800 kW (1,100 hp) each);
Propulsion	4 × Rolls-Royce waterjets
Speed	47 knots (87 km/h; 54 mph) (sea state 3)
Range	3,500 nmi (6,500 km; 4,000 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Endurance	21 days (336 hours)
Boats & landing ; craft carried	36 ft (11 m) Rigid-hulled inflatable boat; 40 ft (12 m) high-speed boats;
Complement	50 core crew, 98 or more with mission package and air detachment crew (Blue and Gold crews)
Sensors and ; processing systems	EADS TRS-3D 3D air and surface search radar; Lockheed Martin COMBATSS-21 combat management system; AN/SQR-20 Multi-Function Towed Array (As part of ASW mission module);
Electronic warfare ; & decoys	Argon ST WBR-2000 ESM system; Terma A/S SKWS decoy system;
Armament	1 × BAE Systems Mk 110 57 mm (2.2 in) gun.; 4 × .50 in (12.7 mm) cal. machine guns; 2 × Mk44 Bushmaster II 30 mm (1.2 in) guns; 21 × RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile Surface-to-Air Missiles; Other weapons as part of mission modules;
Aircraft carried	MH-60R/S Seahawk; MQ-8 Fire Scout;
Aviation facilities	Hangar bay

USS Freedom (LCS-1) is the lead ship of the Freedom-class littoral combat ship for the United States Navy. She is the third vessel to be so named after the concept of freedom. 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 2008.

She is designed for a variety of missions in shallow waters, minesweeping and humanitarian relief, capable against submarines and small ships, but not designed to take on large warships. The ship is a semi-planing monohull design capable of over 40 knots (74 km/h; 46 mph).

Commissioned in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on 8 November 2008, Freedom was home-ported in San Diego, and assigned to Littoral Combat Ship Squadron One.

On 20 June 2020, the US Navy announced that they would be taking Freedom out of commission in March 2021, and placing her, along with Independence, Fort Worth, and Coronado in reserve. She was decommissioned on 29 September 2021.

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