LCS 4 departs from Southeast Asia

YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan - The Navy’s only overseas Littoral Combat Ship, USS Coronado (LCS 4), is heading home to San Diego after a 14-month rotational deployment to Southeast Asia. The ship departed Singapore’s Changi Naval Base on Nov. 4 after participating in 11 exercises and conducting 10 port visits in the region. Coronado was the third LCS to conduct a rotational deployment to Southeast Asia. An unnamed LCS has been chosen to replace the Coronado in mid-2018, according to Task Force 73 spokesperson Arlo Abrahamson. (Source: Stars and Stripes 11/06/17) Gulf Coast Note: USS Coronado, and all even-numbered LCS hulls, was built at Austal USA’s shipyard in Mobile, Ala.