USS Jackson (LCS-6)

For other ships with the same name, see USS Jackson.
USS Jackson in September 2016.
History
United States
Name: USS Jackson
Namesake: Jackson, Mississippi[1]
Awarded: 29 December 2010[2]
Builder: Austal USA[2]
Laid down: 18 October 2012[2]
Launched: 14 December 2013[2]
Sponsored by: Dr. Kate Cochran[1]
Acquired: 11 August 2015[2]
Commissioned: 5 December 2015[1]
Homeport: San Diego, California[2]
Status: in active service
Badge:
General characteristics
Class and type: Independence-class littoral combat ship
Displacement: 2,307 metric tons light, 3,104 metric tons full, 797 metric tons deadweight[2]
Length: 127.4 m (418 ft)[2]
Beam: 31.6 m (104 ft)[2]
Draft: 14 ft (4.27 m)[2]
Propulsion:
Speed: 40+ knots, 47 knots (54 mph; 87 km/h) sprint
Range: 4,300 nautical miles (8,000 km; 4,900 mi) at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)+
Capacity: 210 tonnes
Complement: 40 core crew (8 officers, 32 enlisted) plus up to 35 mission crew
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • Sea Giraffe 3D Surface/Air RADAR
  • Bridgemaster-E Navigational RADAR
  • AN/KAX-2 EO/IR sensor for GFC
Electronic warfare
& decoys:
  • EDO ES-3601 ESM
  • 4 × SRBOC rapid bloom chaff launchers
Armament:
Aircraft carried:

USS Jackson (LCS-6) is an Independence-class littoral combat ship of the United States Navy. She is the first ship to be named for Jackson, the capital of Mississippi.[1][4]

Construction began on 1 August 2011 with the first cutting of aluminum at Austal USA's Modular Manufacturing facility in Mobile, Alabama.[5] The name of the ship was announced on 5 October 2011.[6] The ship was launched on 14 December 2013.[2] Jackson was delivered to the Navy on 11 August 2015 and placed into service that day.[2]

The ship was commissioned in a 5 December 2015 ceremony in Gulfport, Mississippi.[1][7]

Jackson underwent the first of three shock trials[8] in waters off Florida on 16 June 2016, and the last being reported having been completed the week prior to 20 July 2016.[9] A charge of 10,000 pounds (4,500 kg) was set off at around 100 yards (91 m) with the ship wired with around 260 instruments to record the effects.[10]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Church, Kathleen (7 December 2015). "USS Jackson (LCS 6) Commissioned" (Press release). Navy News Service. NNS151207-02. Retrieved 10 December 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "USS Jackson (LCS 6)". Naval Vessel Register. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  3. ↑ "GE Marine's LM2500 gas turbines to power USS Jackson (LCS 6)". naval-technology.com. 1 November 2012. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
  4. ↑ "Navy Names Littoral Combat Ships Jackson and Montgomery" (Press release). U.S. Department of Defense. 25 March 2011. 243-11. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
  5. ↑ "Building of LCS moves forward". UPI. 5 August 2011. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
  6. ↑ "U.S. Navy Christens Independence-Class Littoral Combat Ship USS Jackson". Shipbuilding Tribune. 6 October 2011. Archived from the original on 8 October 2011. Retrieved 8 October 2011.
  7. ↑ "Littoral combat ship USS Jackson commissioned in Gulfport". The Clarion Ledger. USA Today Network. Retrieved 2015-12-06.
  8. ↑ "Simulated Ship Shock Tests/Trials". Institute for Defense Analyses. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
  9. ↑ Ziezulewicz, Geoff (20 July 2016). "USS Jackson completes full ship shock trials". United Press International. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
  10. ↑ LCS Survives First Shock Test, Preps For More, Christopher P. Cavas, Defense News, 17 June 2016, accessed 20 June 2016

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