{"id":381550,"date":"2025-11-15T21:19:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T21:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/381550\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T21:19:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T21:19:11","slug":"navy-commissions-final-littoral-combat-ship-bound-for-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/381550\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy commissions final littoral combat ship bound for San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/USS-Pierre.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/USS-Pierre.jpg\" alt=\"USS Pierre commissioning\" class=\"wp-image-355467\"  \/><\/a>Distinguished guests watch the crew aboard the Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Pierre in Panama City. (Photo courtesy of the U.S. Navy)<\/p>\n<p>The Navy on Saturday commissioned the last of the unique trimaran-hull littoral combat ships to be stationed at Naval Base San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surfpac.navy.mil\/lcs38\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USS Pierre<\/a>, the second warship to be named for the capital city of South Dakota, was commissioned in Panama City, FL, with Navy Secretary John Phelan as the principal speaker.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat an extraordinary day to stand beside to our newest warship under the bright Florida sky,\u201d said Phelan. \u201cIt\u2019s an honor to be here in Panama City, and for me to place the USS Pierre, the 19th and final Independence-variant littoral combat ship into commission.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Larissa Thune Hargens, warship\u2019s sponsor and the daughter of South Dakota Sen. John Thune, gave the crew the order to, \u201cman our ship and bring her to life,\u201d after which the sailors responded, \u201caye, aye, ma\u2019am\u201d and ran aboard the ship.<\/p>\n<p>Designated LCS-38, the Pierre will be the 15th ship in its class to call San Diego its home port. <\/p>\n<p>It is 418 feet long and armed with a main gun, anti-aircraft missiles and machine guns, as well as two helicopters. It\u2019s designed to operate in near-shore environments and can sprint at speeds over 50 mph.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Distinguished guests watch the crew aboard the Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Pierre in Panama City. (Photo courtesy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":381551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,182704,182705,81359,81360,5502,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,182706],"class_list":{"0":"post-381550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-christening","12":"tag-independence-class","13":"tag-littoral-combat-ship","14":"tag-naval-base-san-diego","15":"tag-navy","16":"tag-san-diego","17":"tag-sandiego","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa","24":"tag-uss-pierre"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115555805762143424","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}