Freedom-class littoral combat ship
Ship Hull Number Laid down Launched Commissioned Status
Freedom LCS-1 2 June 2005 23 September 2006 8 November 2008 Active in service ; scheduled for decommissioning in 2021
Fort Worth LCS-3 11 July 2009 7 December 2010 22 September 2012 Active in service ; scheduled for decommissioning in 2021
Milwaukee LCS-5 27 October 2011 18 December 2013 21 November 2015 Active in service
Detroit LCS-7 11 August 2012 18 October 2014 22 October 2016 Active in service
Little Rock LCS-9 27 June 2013 18 July 2015 16 December 2017 Active in service
Sioux City LCS-11 19 February 2014 30 January 2016 17 November 2018 Active in service
Wichita LCS-13 9 February 2015 17 September 2016 12 January 2019 Active in service
Billings LCS-15 2 November 2015 1 July 2017 3 August 2019 Active in service
Indianapolis LCS-17 18 July 2016 18 April 2018 26 October 2019 Active in service
St. Louis LCS-19 17 May 2017 15 December 2018 Fitting out
Minneapolis-Saint Paul LCS-21 22 February 2018 15 June 2019 Fitting out
Cooperstown LCS-23 14 August 2018 19 January 2020 Fitting out
Marinette LCS-25 27 March 2019 Under construction
Nantucket LCS-27 9 October 2019 Under construction
Beloit LCS-29 Under construction
Cleveland LCS-31 On order
Ships -- Ships in class
The Freedom class is one of two classes of the littoral combat ship program, built for the United States Navy. The Freedom class was proposed by a consortium formed by Lockheed Martin as prime contractor and by Fincantieri (project) through the subsidiary Marinette Marine (manufacturer) as a contender for a fleet of small, multipurpose warships to operate in the littoral zone. Two ships were approved, to compete with the design offered by General Dynamics and Austal for a construction contract of up to 55 vessels. Despite initial plans to only accept two of the Freedom and Independence variants, the U.S. Navy has since announced plans to order up to ten additional ships of each class, for a total twelve ships per class. , five ships are active and an additional nine are either on order, under construction or fitting out. It was announced in early September 2016 that the first four vessels of the LCS program would be used as test ships rather than being deployed with the fleet. This includes Freedom and Fort Worth.