Name Tulsa Awarded 29 December 2010 Sponsored by Kathy Taylor Construction started 11 January 2016 Length 127 m Builder Austal USA | Namesake Tulsa, Oklahoma Laid down 11 January 2016 Christened 11 February 2017 Launched 17 March 2017 Displacement 797,000 kg | |
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USS Tulsa (LCS-16) will be an Independence-class littoral combat ship of the United States Navy. She will be the third ship to be named for Tulsa, second-largest city in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.
Tulsa is under construction by Austal USA in Mobile, Alabama. A ceremonial laying of the keel was held at the Austal USA shipyards in Mobile on 11 January 2016. Former Tulsa mayor Kathy Taylor was the ship's sponsor, with a delegation of Tulsa officials including incumbent mayor Dewey F. Bartlett, Jr. also in attendance. Because the ship is being assembled from prefabricated modules, Tulsa was already 60 percent complete at the time of the keel laying.
Tulsa was christened on 11 February 2017 and launched on 17 March 2017.
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