Three active-duty U.S. Navy ships and one U.S. Coast Guard ship will be available for public tours during LA Fleet Week, which runs through Memorial Day weekend.
Tours will be open daily from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, to Monday, May 26-29.
The Navy ships will be berthed in San Pedro’s Outer Harbor at the southern-most coastline, Berth 46, at the end of Miner Street and beyond the S.S. Lane Victory. The Coast Guard ship — the Terrell Horne — will be located in the Downtown Harbor just south of the main LA Fleet Week Expo area, between the fire station and the Los Angeles Maritime Museum.
The only way to get onboard the Navy ships will be to take a shuttle bus from the main LA Fleet Week Expo — alongside the Battleship Iowa, 250 S. Harbor Blvd. — and then get in line. Heading out there earlier in the day is best, organizers said, and they suggest visitors be in line no later than 3 p.m.
The isiting ships are:
- USS Cincinnati (LCS-20): Designed to provide the Navy with modern and networked sea-based platforms, the 418-foot independence-class littoral combat ship, built in Mobile, Alabama, was commissioned on Oct. 5, 2019, and has been deployed at various international ports, including in Costa Rica, Mexico and Panama. The crew includes eight officers, 32 enlisted personnel and up to 35 mission crew. The ship is equipped with Rolling Airframe Missile protection from air threats, features improved nuclear blast and fragmentation protection, and a shock-hardened structure. The fiber-optic shipboard-wide area network allows “plug in and fight” configuration, updating and replacing hardware more easily when newer technology becomes available.
- USS Princeton (CG-59): Home-ported in San Diego, this is the 13th Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser and the sixth U.S. Navy ship to bear the name of Princeton. The 567 foot-long ship, with 24 officers and 340 enlisted on board, has completed three deployments to the Arabian Gulf and won two consecutive…
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