The USS Cleveland sustained “limited damage” when it collided with the tugboat that was launching it in Wisconsin last Saturday; no one was injured and repairs on the new warship are being planned.
The ship's crew and roughly 3,000 guests and dignitaries gathered at Fincantieri Marinette Marine in Marinette, Wisconsin to watch as the Freedom Class Littoral Combat Ship 31 was christened"Cleveland" and launched, reports Scripps News station WGBA in Northeast Wisconsin.
“It was a million hours of effort…to get Cleveland from just being pieces of steel, to what you see behind you," he said. It was during this side-launch that “unintentional contact occurred between the ship and a supporting tug,” according to Jamie Koehler with the Naval Sea Systems Command Office of Corporate Communications.
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