{"id":13147,"date":"2025-07-14T20:02:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T20:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=13147"},"modified":"2025-07-14T20:02:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T20:02:45","slug":"austal-usa-delivers-future-uss-pierre-lcs-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=13147","title":{"rendered":"Austal USA delivers future USS Pierre (LCS 38)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Austal USA delivers future USS Pierre (LCS 38)<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Austal USA delivered the future USS <em>Pierre<\/em> (LCS 38) to the U.S. Navy this past Friday, the second ship delivered by the Mobile, Ala., shipbuilder to the Navy in less than a month. LCS 38 is the 19th <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usni.org\/magazines\/proceedings\/2021\/january\/driving-independence-variant-littoral-combat-ships\">Independence-variant <\/a>Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) delivered by the company and the last of the Independence-variants that will be delivered.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignleft is-type-wp-embed is-provider-marine-log wp-block-embed-marine-log\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"BkWvn1rw4Q\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/shipbuilding\/shipyards\/shipyard-news\/austal-usa-christens-final-independence-variant-lcs-uss-pierre\/\">Austal USA christens final Independence-variant LCS, USS Pierre<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"\u201cAustal USA christens final Independence-variant LCS, USS Pierre\u201d \u2014 Marine Log\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/shipbuilding\/shipyards\/shipyard-news\/austal-usa-christens-final-independence-variant-lcs-uss-pierre\/embed\/#?secret=kFTxPVmgcj#?secret=BkWvn1rw4Q\" data-secret=\"BkWvn1rw4Q\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>It is the second U.S. Navy vessel to be named after Pierre, the capital city of South Dakota. The ship\u2019s sponsor is Larissa Thune, daughter of Senate Leader John Thune.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Thune welded her initials into the ship\u2019s keel plate at the keel laying ceremony held in June of 2023 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/shipbuilding\/shipyards\/shipyard-news\/austal-usa-christens-final-independence-variant-lcs-uss-pierre\/\">christened the ship in front of hundreds of guests last May.<\/a> She will continue to strengthen her relationship with the ship\u2019s crew as she carries out her sponsor\u2019s responsibilities throughout the life of the ship.<\/p>\n<p>Delivery documents were signed on board following the successful completion of acceptance trials held the week of June 9, 2025. The trials tested the ship\u2019s major systems and equipment to demonstrate their successful operation and mission readiness. The ships\u2019 pre-commissioning unit will now begin preparations for fleet introduction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Delivery of the future USS <em>Pierre <\/em>will be one of our most memorable milestone achievements as it marks the conclusion of Austal USA\u2019s Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ship program,\u201d said Austal USA president Michelle Kruger. \u201cOur shipbuilding team has poured years of dedication, innovation, and manufacturing excellence into this ship and the results are evident. Though USS <em>Pierre<\/em> is the last LCS Austal USA will deliver, we remain committed to supporting the U.S. Navy with innovative maritime solutions and the highest standards of quality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Austal USA\u2019s Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) are fast, agile, platforms designed for near-shore operations, supporting forward presence, maritime security, sea control, and deterrence.<\/p>\n<p>The Austal USA-built LCS variant is also playing a key role in advancing the Navy\u2019s unmanned programs, with USS <em>Oakland<\/em> (LCS 24) having recently served as a mothership for unmanned surface vessels and large flight decks support unmanned drones during an 18-month deployment to the U.S. 7th Fleet. USS <em>Tulsa <\/em>(LCS 16), USS <em>Canberra<\/em> (LCS 30) and USS <em>Santa Barbara <\/em>(LCS 32) have deployed with the mine countermeasures (MCM) mission package which features airborne and unmanned systems, enhancing littoral capabilities. USS <em>Canberra<\/em> is serving a rotational deployment in Bahrain as part of the U.S. 5th Fleet soon to be joined by<em> Santa Barbara<\/em> and eventually <em>Tulsa.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Austal USA has nine U.S. Navy vessels and one U.S. Coast Guard cutter under construction with construction scheduled to begin on a second cutter in early August.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/shipbuilding\/shipyards\/shipyard-news\/austal-usa-delivers-future-uss-pierre-lcs-38\/\">Austal USA delivers future USS Pierre (LCS 38)<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/\">Marine Log<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Marine Log Staff<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/shipbuilding\/shipyards\/shipyard-news\/austal-usa-delivers-future-uss-pierre-lcs-38\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=austal-usa-delivers-future-uss-pierre-lcs-38\">Go to marinelog<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austal USA delivers future USS Pierre (LCS 38) Austal USA delivered the future USS Pierre (LCS 38) to the U.S. Navy this past Friday, the second ship delivered by the Mobile, Ala., shipbuilder to the Navy in less than a month. LCS 38 is the 19th Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) delivered by the company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1105,5272,1106,192,5273,199,395,285,5274],"tags":[193],"class_list":["post-13147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austal-usa","category-inependence-variant","category-lcs","category-marinelog","category-michelle-bowden","category-news","category-shipbuilder","category-shipyard-news","category-uss-pierre","tag-marinelog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}