USS Nantucket (LCS-27) will be a littoral combat ship of the United States Navy.[1] [2] She will be the third commissioned ship in naval service named after Nantucket.
Marinette Marine was awarded the contract to build the ship on 6 October 2017.
In 2002, the US Navy initiated a program to develop the first of a fleet of littoral combat ships.[3] The Navy initially ordered two monohull ships from Lockheed Martin, which became known as the Freedom-class littoral combat ships after the first ship of the class, .[4] Odd-numbered U.S. Navy littoral combat ships are built using the Freedom-class monohull design, while even-numbered ships are based on a competing design, the trimaran hull from General Dynamics. The initial order of littoral combat ships involved a total of four ships, including two of the Freedom-class design. Nantucket will be the fourteenth Freedom-class littoral combat ship to be built.
The ship was christened on 7 August 2021 and launched into the Menominee River.[5] Her sponsor was Polly Spencer, wife of Richard V. Spencer, former Secretary of the Navy.[6]