The USS Cleveland will be the final Littoral Combat Ship to enter service—ending a long, and not entirely positive, saga for the warships. On Saturday, May 16, the United States Navy will commission ...

The final Independence-class LCS will now be retooled for mine warfare, and the ships may finally serve a helpful purpose, replacing aging minesweepers. It is just the second warship to be named for ...

The Independence-class LCS has been re-adapted for use as a minesweeper, although there are concerns that its aluminum hull might not be ideally suited for that purpose. Delivery of LCS-38 marked the ...

USS Cleveland (LCS-31) sits pierside during the ship’s commissioning ceremony in Cleveland, Ohio, May 16, 2026. US Navy photo The Navy commissioned the final Littoral Combat Ship on Saturday in ...

The U.S. Navy has commissioned USS Cleveland (LCS 31), officially closing out the Littoral Combat Ship program after more than two decades marked by cost overruns, mechanical failures, and shifting ...

Rising Tides is an opinion column about Mobile. Today’s guest columnist is Larry Ryder. Twenty years ago, Austal USA started construction of its first Independence-class Littoral Combat Ship, the USS ...

Several U.S. naval ships are capable of reaching record-breaking speeds. As of this writing, the fastest U.S. Navy ship still in service is the Freedom-class littoral combat ship (LCS). Officially, it ...