A New USS Cincinnati Commissioned

From Cincinnati.com.

The new USS Cincinnati (LCS-290) will be commissioned today.  It is the fifth warship in the U.S. Navy to bear the name.  A picture of it strongly resembles a Civil War Confederate ironclad.

It was built by the Austal USA Shipyard and will be commissioned at Mobile, Alabama.

The ship is an Independence-class littoral combat ship designed to work close to shore and can go at speeds of up to 51 mph.

She is the seventh ship of her class and crewed by just 40.

--Cooter