The ship's blue and gold crews took turns manning the ship during the lengthy cruise. The littoral combat ship was was delivered to the Navy in September and is based in Mayport, Florida. No one was injured in Saturday's mishap but the ship suffered damage above the waterline, officials said. A provision in the FY23 defense bill calls on U.S. Southern Command to study the feasibility of permanently assigning LCSs to the combatant command. Officials said they are confident the mishap did not involve the ship's combining gear, an issue plaguing the Freedom-class LCS fleet. USS Sioux City was still able to deploy despite not receiving a fix for a class-wide propulsion problem, officials said. Big Navy is looking to divest itself of several littoral combat ships. Efforts to recover the RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missiles have begun. Congress appears poised to save five littoral combat ships from an early retirement, but the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee is saying that the fight to ditch the ships is not yet over. Despite hours of sometimes intense debate, the measure advanced out of committee on a bipartisan 57-1 vote. Load More