The US Navy has officially commissioned its 14th Freedom-class littoral combat ship, the USS Nantucket (LCS 27), during a ceremony in Boston, Massachusetts. This commissioning follows the vessel’s acceptance trials in 2022 and its delivery in July 2024. Lockheed Martin and Fincantieri Marinette Marine commenced construction of the USS Nantucket in 2017, as part of the US Department of Defense’s broader effort to modernize its warship fleet. The USS Nantucket is the third naval vessel to carry this name, succeeding a Civil War-era coastal monitor ship and an early 1910s gunboat that was later repurposed as a maritime training system.
