Navy to name new combat ship after Twin Cities

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The U.S. Navy’s littoral combat ship USS Fort Worth (LCS-3) is moored at a South Korean naval port in the southeastern port city of Busan Saturday, March 14, 2015. USS Fort Worth, the first U.S. Navy’s littoral combat ship to visit South Korea, is participating in the annual Foal Eagle exercise with the South Korean Navy. (AP Photo/Jung Yeon-je, Pool)

MINNEAPOLIS — The Navy is naming a combat ship after the Twin Cities.

The Department of Defense said in a news release Thursday that the Navy’s next Freedom-class littoral combat ship would be named the USS Minneapolis/St. Paul. The department says the fast ships are used in mine, anti-submarine and surface warfare.

This is the second ship to have the name. The first was a submarine that was commissioned in 1984.

Construction of the ship will be led by a Lockheed Martin team in Marinette, Wisconsin. The 388-foot-long ship will be able to travel at speeds topping 40 knots.

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