The Navy’s third Littoral Combat Ship (LCS 3), the future USS Fort Worth, has begun her journey to commissioning in Texas and on to her eventual homeport of San Diego. The LCS got underway Monday from the Marinette Marine Corp. shipyard in Marinette, Wisc., on the way to her commissioning site in Galveston, Texas. The ship’s commissioning is set for Sept. 22. Lockheed Martin [LMT] and partner Marinette Marine build the Freedom (LCS 1) variant of the LCS, while Austal…
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