Future Portland completes trials

PASCAGOULA, Miss. - The future USS Portland (LPD 27) successfully completed Acceptance Trials after sailing from and returning Aug. 18 to Huntington Ingalls Industries’ shipyard in Pascagoula, according to a Naval Sea Systems Command release on Aug. 21. Portland is the 11th San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship to be presented to the Navy’s Board of Inspection and Survey (INSURV) for acceptance. Acceptance Trials are conducted to demonstrate a ship’s readiness for delivery through a series of dock-side and underway tests and evaluations. Portland is scheduled to be delivered to the Navy this fall, and will be commissioned in the spring of 2018 in Portland, Ore. (Source: Seapower Magazine 08/21/17)