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US Navy - Littoral Combat Ship LCS 4 - USS Coronado |
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Type,
class: Littoral Combat Ship - LCS; Independence
class Builder: Austal-USA, Mobile, Alabama, USA STATUS: Awarded: May 1, 2009 Laid down: December 17, 2009 Launched: January 14, 2012 Commissioned: April 5, 2014 Decommissioned: September 14, 2022 Namesake: City of Coronado, California Ships Motto: CROWN OF THE FLEET Technical Data: see: INFO > Independence class Littoral Combat Ship - LCS |
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 decommissioning ceremony at Naval Base San Diego, California - September 14, 2022  returning to Naval Base San Diego, California - June 2022  returning to Naval Base San Diego, California - June 2022  Portland, Oregon - June 2022  San Diego, California - April 2021  change of command ceremony at Vigor Shipyard, Portland, Oregon - May 2019  during Exercise Phoenix Fire - Pacific Ocean - November 2018  during Exercise Phoenix Fire - Pacific Ocean - November 2018  Pacific Ocean - June 2018  Pacific Ocean - June 2018  MQ-8C Fire Scout UAV testing - Pacific Ocean - June 2018  MQ-8C Fire Scout UAV testing - Pacific Ocean - June 2018  MQ-8C Fire Scout UAV testing - Pacific Ocean - June 2018  MQ-8C Fire Scout UAV testing - Pacific Ocean - June 2018  MQ-8C Fire Scout UAV testing - Pacific Ocean - June 2018  San Diego, California - December 2017  San Diego, California - December 2017  San Diego, California - December 2017  Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - November 2017  Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - November 2017  Strait of Malacca - September 2017  Mk.141 tube-launcher (2x2) for RGM-84 Harpoon SSM missiles - Strait of Malacca - September 2017  Java Sea - September 2017  off Malaysia - September 2017  off Malaysia - September 2017  RGM-84 Harpoon SSM missile was fired from the Mk.141 tube-launcher - Philippine Sea - August 2017  a NOMAD drone launches from the flight deck - Philippine Sea - August 2017  a NOMAD drone launches from the flight deck - Philippine Sea - August 2017  a NOMAD drone launches from the flight deck - Philippine Sea - August 2017  Mk.110 57mm gun fire exercise - South China Sea - July 2017  Port of Cam Ranh, Vietnam - July 2017  Port of Cam Ranh, Vietnam - June 2017  Bohol Sea - June 2017  Bohol Sea - June 2017  Twin Boom Extensible Crane (TBEC) small boat operations - Bohol Sea - June 2017  during exercise CARAT - Gulf of Thailand - June 2017  during exercise CARAT - Gulf of Thailand - June 2017  Singapore - May 2017  Twin Boom Extensible Crane (TBEC) small boat operations - May 2017  South China Sea - May 2017  Langkawi, Malaysia - March 2017  Mk.110 57mm gun maintenance - March 2017  February 2017  February 2017  February 2017  February 2017  MQ-8B Fire Scout UAV - February 2017  Mk.141 tube-launcher for RGM-84 Harpoon SSM and Mk.110 gun - off Singapore - February 2017  Twin Boom Extensible Crane (TBEC) small boat operations - off Singapore - February 2017  Mk.110 57mm gun fire exercise - Pacific Ocean - February 2017  Singapore - January 2017  Singapore - January 2017  Singapore - January 2017  Twin Boom Extensible Crane (TBEC) small boat operations - January 2017  Twin Boom Extensible Crane (TBEC) small boat operations - January 2017  Changi Naval Base, Singapore - October 2016  Changi Naval Base, Singapore - October 2016  October 2016  October 2016  Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - September 2016  August 2016  Pacific Ocean - July 2016  Pacific Ocean - July 2016  Pacific Ocean - July 2016  Pacific Ocean - July 2016  Pacific Ocean - July 2016  July 2016  RGM-84 Harpoon SSM was fired from a Mk.141 missile launcher aboard USS Coronado (LCS 4) - July 2016  RGM-84 Harpoon SSM was fired from a Mk.141 missile launcher aboard USS Coronado (LCS 4) - July 2016  RGM-84 Harpoon SSM was fired from a Mk.141 missile launcher aboard USS Coronado (LCS 4) - July 2016  RGM-84 Harpoon SSM was fired from a Mk.141 missile launcher aboard USS Coronado (LCS 4) - July 2016  RGM-84 Harpoon SSM was fired from a Mk.141 missile launcher aboard USS Coronado (LCS 4) - July 2016  Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - June 2016  Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - June 2016  San Diego - June 2016  San Francisco Fleet Week - October 2015  Twin Boom Extensible Crane (TBEC) small boat operations - Pacific Ocean - August 2015  Pacific Ocean - August 2015  Pacific Ocean - August 2015  Mk.15 / Mod.31 SeaRAM CIWS reload - Pacific Ocean - August 2015  Kongsberg Naval Strike Missile (NSM) testing - Pacific Ocean - September 2014  USS Coronado (LCS 4) and the Military Sealift Command joint high speed vessel USNS Millinocket (JHSV 3) transit in formation off the coast of Southern California as part of a photo exercise for exercise RIMPAC 2014 - Pacific Ocean - July 2014  in formation with USS Independence - Pacific Ocean - April 2014  Pacific Ocean - April 2014  Pacific Ocean - April 2014  commissioning ceremony - Coronado, California - April 5, 2014  commissioning ceremony - Coronado, California - April 5, 2014  Coronado, California - March 2014  Coronado, California - March 2014  San Diego, California - March 2014  San Diego, California - March 2014  San Diego, California - March 2014  San Diego, California - March 2014  January 2014  acceptance trials - Gulf of Mexico - August 2013 (Austal-USA photo via USN)  at the Austal-USA shipbuilding yard - Mobile, Alabama - January 2012 (Austal-USA photo via USN)  at the Austal-USA shipbuilding yard - Mobile, Alabama - January 2012 (Austal-USA photo via USN)  under construction at the Austal-USA shipbuilding yard - Mobile, Alabama - August 2011  under construction at the Austal-USA shipbuilding yard - Mobile, Alabama - July 2010 |
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USS Coronado (LCS 4): USS Coronado was launched and christened during a ceremony in Mobile Bay on 14 January 2012 by Susan Keith, the daughter of Eleanor Ring who christened USS Coronado (AGF-11) in 1966. Fire is feared on all the ships of the Independence class, and the delivery of Coronado was delayed by two fires during her builder's trials. USS Coronado was delivered on 27 September 2013. On 27 January 2014 Coronado departed the Austal USA shipyard in Mobile, Alabama, en route to her commissioning site in Coronado, California. She was commissioned on 5 April 2014. On 30 April 2014, the LCS Mission Modules (MM) program successfully completed the first Structural Test Firing (STF) of the 30 mm gun mission module aboard USS Coronado. The test consisted of installing two 30 mm guns, mission package software, and associated test equipment, loading live ammunition, and conducting three live fire scenarios: gun operations; worst case blast loading; and sustained fire. Multiple tracking exercises using high speed maneuvering surface targets to simulate single and swarm boat attacks were also accomplished the following day. Surface warfare tracking and live fire exercises are scheduled in summer 2014, culminating in initial operational test and evaluation in 2015. Coronado is the first Independence-class LCS to undergo firings of the 30 mm cannons of the surface warfare mission package. In late July 2014, the Navy confirmed that Coronado would test-launch the Norwegian Naval Strike Missile in September. Although there is no current requirement for the missile aboard Littoral Combat Ships, it is significantly larger than the AGM-114 Hellfire missile slated to be integrated onto the ship classes, and the Navy is testing its feasibility in an increased anti-surface warfare role for the ships. The test was meant to provide insight into the missile's capabilities, see if it could fit aboard the ship, and review the detect-to-engage sequence of firing a long-range weapon from an LCS. The test occurred on 24 September 2014. The missile was successfully fired from a launcher positioned on ship's flight deck at a mobile ship target. In mid-August 2014, Coronado demonstrated the ability to rapidly stage and deploy U.S. Marine Corps ground units. Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadrons 469 and 303 conducted day and night deck-landing qualifications in preparation for an airborne raid. The Independence LCS' features of high speed, a large flight deck, and reconfigurable mission bay can support air and small-boat employment and delivery of Marine ground and air tactical units; a small Marine ground unit can be carried even with an embarked mission module. On 16 October 2014, the Navy announced that Coronado conducted dynamic interface testing with the MQ-8B Fire Scout unmanned helicopter. The tests familiarized the crew with operating the unmanned aircraft, verified and expanded launch and recovery envelopes, and identified opportunities for envelope expansion to demonstrate future concepts of operations for the aircraft aboard an LCS, which will use the Fire Scout in all three mission packages. Final Contract Trials (FCT) for the ship were completed in June 2014, and Coronado is scheduled to begin Post Shakedown Availability in October 2014. On 19 July 2016, while participating in the Rim of the Pacific Exercise, Coronado was used to conduct a live-fire missile test of a Block 1C Harpoon anti-ship missile. While the missile failed to destroy its target, the test validated the ability to launch high-powered missiles from the forward deck of a littoral combat ship. On 16 October 2016, Coronado arrived in Singapore for a scheduled rotational deployment to the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. It was the first time an Independence-class LCS had been deployed to the region, the first deployment of the MQ-8B fitted with the Telephonics AN/ZPY-4(V)1 radar, and the first deployment of an LCS platform equipped with an over-the-horizon anti-ship capability, in the form of a four-cell RGM-84D Harpoon Block 1C missile launcher. February 2020, the Navy announced the retirement of both Independence and Coronado after ten and six years of service respectively. The decision came after the Navy discovered cracks in the hull in late 2019, which were exacerbated when the ship sailed at speeds greater than 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) in heavy seas. Evaluations of other Independence-class ships have revealed a further five hulls that are suffering from the same problem, out of the first thirteen vessels of the class. Those other vessels remain in service, albeit with limitations imposed on top speeds in higher sea states. On 17 March 2020, United States Pacific Fleet reported a crew member of Coronado tested 'positive' for COVID-19, one of the initial ships in the US Navy to report a case. The Coronado crew were at their home port in San Diego, so the sailor quarantined at home. By 26 March 2020, a further eight sailors had tested positive and over thirty had been quarantined in an attempt to contain the spread of the virus. On 20 June 2020, the US Navy announced they would be taking Coronado out of commission in March 2021, and placing her, along with the littoral combat ships Freedom, Independence, and Fort Worth in reserve. The ship's decommissioning was deferred, and on 18 June 2021, Naval News reported that Coronado would be inactivated in FY 2022 and put on the Out of Commission in Reserve (OCIR) list. Coronado nevertheless took part in Portland Fleet Week 2022, on 8-12 June, along with destroyer USS Michael Monsoor, three US Coast Guard cutters and a pair of Royal Canadian Navy ships. Coronado was decommissioned on 14 September 2022 at San Diego, California. The ceremony’s guest speaker was Rear Admiral Wayne Baze, commander of Expeditionary Strike Group 3. source: wikipedia |
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Coronado ... is a resort city located in San Diego County, California, USA, across the San Diego Bay from downtown San Diego. It was founded in the 1880s and incorporated in 1890. Its population was 24,697 at the 2010 census, up from 24,100 at the 2000 census. Coronado is a tied island connected to the mainland by a thin strip of land called the Silver Strand. The explorer Sebastian Vizcaino gave Coronado its name and drew its first map in 1602. Coronado is Spanish term for "crowned one," and thus it is nicknamed The Crown City. Its name is derived from the four off-shore islands, Los Guatro Martires Coronados (Spanish for "The Four Crowned Martyrs"). These other islands are still known as the Coronado Islands, and are now located within Tijuana Municipality of Mexico. Three ships of the United States Navy have been named after the city, including USS Coronado. source: wikipedia |
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