New London, CT 2019
The USS Sioux City (LCS-11) is a Freedom Class, littoral combat combat ship and is one of the newest ships to serve in the Navy, having been commissioned in November 2018. It is assigned to the Fifth Fleet in the Persian Gulf, when not visiting New London. I never heard of the term "littoral" before but it is essentially the area of a river, sea or lake that is close to shore. The ship was designed to provide combat support "in the littorals", or close to shore.
I have never seen a ship like this one. It is named for a town about two hours south of us.
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