Naval Today said:
Secretary of the U.S. Navy Ray Mabus announced Saturday that the next Freedom-variant littoral combat ship will be named USS Cooperstown (LCS 23).
The future Cooperstown will be the first ship to bear the name. It was named to honor the veterans who are members of the National Baseball Hall of Fame located in Cooperstown, New York. These 64 men served in conflicts ranging from the Civil War through the Korean War.
A fast, agile surface combatant, the LCS provides the required war fighting capabilities and operational flexibility to execute a variety of missions in areas such as mine warfare, anti-submarine warfare and surface warfare.
Cooperstown will be built with modular design incorporating mission packages that can be changed out quickly as combat needs change in a region. These mission packages are supported by detachments that deploy both manned and unmanned vehicles, and sensors in support of mine, undersea, and surface warfare missions.
The ship will be 388 feet long and will be capable of traveling at speeds in excess of 40 knots. The construction will be led by a Lockheed Martin industry team in Marinette, Wisconsin.
Keeping pace with the USS independence class names from last week. This will be the twelfth Freedom class vessel. I expect this week we will also here about LCS-21...which is yet to be named yet.
We can update the list with this one though:
USS Freedom LCS-1 Launch: 9/23/2006 Commission11/8/2008 Active
USS Independence LCS-2 Launch: 4/26 2008 Commission 1/16/2010 Active
USS Fort Worth LCS-3 Launch: 12/7/2010 Commission 9/22/2012 Active
USS Coronado LCS-4 Launch: 1/12/ 2012 Commission: 4/5/2014 Active
USS Milwaukee LCS-5 Launch: 12/18/2013 Fitting out
USS Jackson LCS-6 Launch: 12/14/2013 Fitting out
USS Detroit LCS-7 Launch: 10/18/2014 Fitting out
USS Montgomery LCS-8 Launch: 8/6/2014 Fitting out
USS Little Rock LCS-9 Launch: 7/18 2015 Fitting out
USS Gabrielle Giffords LCS-10 Launch 2/25/2015 Fitting out
USS Sioux City LCS-11 Under construction
USS Omaha LCS-12 Under construction
USS Wichita LCS-13 Under construction
USS Manchester LCS-14 Under construction
USS Billings LCS-15 Under construction
USS Tulsa LCS-16 Under construction
USS Indianapolis LCS-17 Under construction
USS Charleston LCS-18 Under construction
USS St. Louis LCS-19 On order
USS Cincinnati LCS-20 On order
LCS-21 (Not named) On order
USS Kansas City LCS-22 On order
USS Cooperstown, LCS-23, On Order
LCS-24 On order