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EPF-12 Finishes Integrated Sea Trials

Monday, August 3rd, 2020

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EPF-12 Finishes Integrated Sea Trials

The Navy’s twelfth Expeditionary Fast Transport (EPF) vessel, USNS Newport (EPF-12), successfully competed Integrated Sea Trials on July 30, 2020. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

The Navy’s latest Expeditionary Fast Transport ship, the future USNS Newport (EPF-12), finished integrated sea trials on July 30, the service said Monday. Integrated trials combine both the builder’s and acceptance trials. The Navy said this allows the shipyard, Austal USA, to demonstrate operational capability and mission readiness of ship systems to the Navy’s Board of Inspection and Survey. In these trials, Austal conducted comprehensive tests to demonstrate the performance of all major ship systems. The shipyard is in Mobile,…

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