
The Navy’s Sioux City Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) demonstrated several important operational and maintenance capabilities during a recently completed five-month deployment that included the first operations with the service’s Fifth and Sixth Fleets. One of the successes for the 11th Freedom-class LCS was the fact it had no issues despite operating under restrictions on the use of the combining gear on the vessel, limiting the top-end speed of the ship, Cmdr. Scott Whitworth, the commanding officer of Sioux City Blue…