Alcoa Defense outfits Austal USA's newly christened 127-meter all-aluminum LCS Coronado

Alcoa Defense today congratulated Austal USA on the christening of the Coronado, the second Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), recently inaugurated in Mobile, Alabama. The Independence-variant LCS is a 127-meter all-aluminum vessel, with a trimaran hull–design which offers maneuverability, stability, endurance, shallow draft, and a flight deck larger than any other U.S. Navy surface combatant. The LCS is one of the single largest uses of aluminum anywhere in the world. Each LCS features more than one million pounds of high-quality aluminum, helping make the ship lighter, stronger and faster. The LCS is the largest aluminum vessel being constructed today and most of the hundreds of thousands of pounds of the 5083-alloy aluminum plate for each ship is supplied by Alcoa’s Davenport Works in Riverdale, Iowa. In addition to marine plate, Alcoa Defense also supplies fabricated aluminum subassemblies for the Austal LCS.