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EPF-10 Finishes Builder’s Trials

Thursday, July 5th, 2018

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EPF-10 Finishes Builder’s Trials

The U.S. Navy’s Expeditionary Fast Transport vessel USNS City of Bismarck (EPF-9) is launched in Mobile, Ala. On June 7, 2017. (Photo: David Stoltz, U.S. Navy).

The Navy’s next Expeditionary Fast Transport vessel, the future USNS Burlington (EPF-10), successfully finished its builder’s trials on June 29, the Navy said on Thursday.The ship was built by Austal USA at its shipyard in Mobile, Ala. The trails lasted for a week and started pierside for dock trials. The Supervisor of Shipbuilding Gulf Coast worked with the shipyard to demonstrate system equipment and operations worked properly. The ship then spent two days underway in the Gulf of Mexico demonstrating…

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