USS Milwaukee Arrives at BAE Shipyard in Mayport
The U.S. Navy’s San Diego-based littoral fight ship USS Milwaukee (LCS 5) arrived on the BAE shipyard in Mayport, Florida earlier this week to finish repairs following a lack of propulsion incident in December.
Milwaukee left the Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek in Norfolk, Virginia on February seventeenth after having accomplished preliminary engineering repairs on her propulsion system.
An investigation has been ongoing since Milwaukee skilled a lack of propulsion whereas underway off the coast of Virginia in December. The ship, solely not too long ago commissioned in November, was en-route to the naval base in Little Creek when it misplaced propulsion, requiring that ship be towed the remainder of the way in which to port. An announcement from the U.S. Navy on the time blamed the incident on metallic particles contamination within the port and starboard combining gear filter methods.
The Navy stated this week that the present focus of the continued investigation signifies a possible failure of an emergency cease occasion in response to a lack of gasoline stress to each the port and starboard gasoline turbine engines that occurred whereas working in mixed diesel and gasoline turbine (CODAG) mode.
Though Milwaukee is a San Diego-based ship, she is at present manned with a Mayport-based workforce. After profitable completion of required certifications, they executed a crew swap late final yr at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story.
“Crew 108 Sailors are thrilled to finally arrive in our new homeport and reunite with our families,” stated Cmdr. Kevin Ralston, Milwaukee’s commanding officer. “It’s been a long journey to get here, but I couldn’t be happier with my crew’s performance and their efforts to get Milwaukee ready for sea.”
While on the BAE shipyard, the vessel will tackle tools for underway testing this spring, earlier than finally arriving in her San Diego homeport.
Mayport is scheduled to be the house of eight Freedom-variant littoral fight ships and 12 LCS crews, beginning with USS Little Rock (LCS 9).
