The Navy’s aluminum trimaran littoral combat ship will take its maiden deployment — more than six years after the first one was commissioned. The Coronado, LCS 4, departs San Diego Wednesday ...

“The trimaran is a slightly different approach ... When Austal delivered the world’s fastest and largest aluminum boat to the Canary Islands in 2005, the work didn’t stop there.

The aluminum trimaran hit a top speed of 45 knots [50mph] and kept a sustained speed of 44 knots during its full power run in the Gulf of Mexico, shipbuilder General Dynamics said in an announcement.

Coronado is the fourth littoral combat ship delivered to the Navy, and the second LCS of the aluminum, trimaran Independence variant. It is scheduled to be commissioned April 5, and will be ...

Time to start calling the Independence Class a surveillance frigate. In all the debate over the Navy’s battered and largely derided Littoral Combat Ship concept, the Independence Class LCS has ...

The Independence-class Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), an angular aluminum trimaran, and the Expeditionary Fast Transport (EPF), a multipurpose aluminum catamaran. Its workforce had peaked at around ...

stealthy trimaran hull made of aluminum and steel. The LCS is the Navy's response to asymmetric threats in coastal waters. The trimaran hull enables the ship to do 50 knots, then sneak up through ...

She said that the Navy remains committed to a 55-ship LCS fleet. While Austal builds an aluminum, trimaran version of the LCS, Lockheed Martin builds a steel version. There is also always the ...

This category — the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) group — is composed of two distinct designs: the LCS-1 Freedom class, a steel monohull, and the LCS-2 Independence class, an aluminum trimaran ...

The first 24 ships of the class are evenly comprised of two variants, the steel monohull Freedom variant (odd numbered hulls) and the aluminum trimaran Independence variant (even numbered hulls).

“Classy.” That was the first word that came to mind for Boat of the Year judge Mike Ingham when he stepped aboard the formidable 40-foot trimaran from Dragonfly, an unexpected and welcome late ...