2 Austal LCS to be based in SD

Two of the newer Gulf Coast-built Littoral Combat Ships - Gabrielle Giffords and Omaha – are to be home-ported in San Diego along with the future destroyer Zumwalt, according to the Navy. There are four LCS at Naval Station San Diego. The announcement also indicates there will be at least 10 based there in the future. Giffords and Omaha were built at Austal USA shipyards in Mobile, Ala. (Source: San Diego Union-Tribune 08/13/15) Gulf Coast Shipbuilding Note: Austal USA christened USS Giffords (LCS 10) in June. The keel-laying for the future USS Omaha (LCS 12) was in February. The Zumwalt (DDG-1000) was christened in 2014 in Bath, Maine. It will be the Navy's largest destroyer.