US NAVY - USS FORT WORTH / LCS-3 Challenge Coin

Description: This is a great looking US NAVY - USS Fort Worth (LCS-3) Challenge Coin. Coin has reeded edges and is about 1 9/16" in diameter. Front side of coin is printed enamel and colorized while the rear side is raised lettering and gold plated. Coin is contained in an acrylic air tight holder.USS Fort Worth (LCS-3) is a Freedom-class littoral combat ship of the United States Navy. She is the first ship to be named after Fort Worth, Texas, the 16th-largest city in the United States. The ship's name was announced 6 March 2009. This was after a long public relations campaign by United States Representative Kay Granger, former Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon R. England, and others. The ship was built by Lockheed-Martin. Her keel was laid on 11 July 2009 during a ceremony at Marinette Marine Shipyard in Marinette, Wisconsin. Fort Worth includes additional stability improvements to deal with issues found on the first ship in the class, Freedom. The 80% completed ship was launched by its contractor on 4 December 2010. The vessel underwent sea trials in Lake Michigan during late 2011, with the completion of these trials announced on 24 October 2011. The ship successfully completed its acceptance trials, which also took place on Lake Michigan, on 4 May 2012. The inspectors found only ten severe deficiencies during the trials, an "exponential" improvement over Freedom. The improvements to the ship include a lengthened hull, which makes her faster than Freedom and ten percent more fuel efficient. Fort Worth was commissioned at Galveston, Texas on 22 September 2012. She set sail on a 16-month deployment in the Fall of 2014. Fort Worth will rely on automated sensors to perform "conditions-based maintenance" and hopefully avoid the greatly overworked crew problems that Freedom had on her first deployment. Fort Worth lacks the bow thruster mounted on Freedom. Name: Fort Worth Namesake: Fort Worth, Texas Awarded: 23 March 2009 Builder: Marinette, Maine Laid down: 11 July 2009 Launched: 4 December 2010 Sponsored by: Kay Granger Christened: 4 December 2010 Acquired: 6 June 2012 Commissioned: 22 September 2012 Homeport: Naval Base San Diego Honors and awards: Battle E 2013 (LCS Crew 103 Rough Riders) Status: in active service *COMBINED SHIPPING AVAILABLE* For combined shipping place all items in cart then purchase all items together from cart for 1 combined shipping charge...

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Location: New Braunfels, Texas

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