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Austal USA celebrates keel laying for future USS Kingsville (LCS 36)
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Austal USA lays keel for future USS Kingsville (LCS 36)

Austal USA laid the keel of the future USS Kingsville (LCS 36), an Independence-class littoral combat ship (LCS), during a ceremony at the company's ship manufacturing facility in Alabama on February 23.

Naval News Staff 24 Feb 2022

Austal press release

Austal USA in Mobile, Ala., celebrated the keel laying of the future USS Kingsville (LCS 36) at our ship manufacturing facility today.  Kingsville is an Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), one of 18 that the Navy has contracted Austal to build. The ship is the first U.S. Navy ship named for the city of Kingsville in Texas.

A keel-laying ceremony is the formal recognition of the start of a ship’s construction.  In Austal USA, the keel laying symbolically recognizes module erection in final assembly and the ceremonial beginning of a ship.

Austal USA celebrates keel laying for future USS Kingsville (LCS 36)
The first welding of LCS 36

The ship’s sponsor is Katherine Kline, a member of the sixth generation of the King Ranch family, decedents of Captain Richard King who founded the King Ranch located in Kingsville, Texas, in 1853.  The Naval Air Station Kingsville, located three miles from Kingsville was founded in 1942 and continues a special relationship with the King Ranch.

As the keel authenticator today, Kline welded her initials onto an aluminum keel plate with the assistance of Austal USA A-class welder, Mr. Joseph Bennett, Jr.

Today marked an imp milestone in the life of the future #USSKingsville. During the keel laying ceremony, ship sponsor, Mrs. Katherine Kline, assisted by Austal A-class welder Joseph Bennett Jr, welded her initials onto an aluminum plate that will be placed in the keel of the ship pic.twitter.com/VPCbdg5KXp

— Austal USA (@Austal_USA) February 23, 2022
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