{"id":54822,"date":"2025-11-15T19:53:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T19:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/54822\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T19:53:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T19:53:06","slug":"san-diego-bound-warship-uss-pierre-commissioned-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/54822\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego-bound warship USS Pierre commissioned in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The USS Pierre, the last Independence-class littoral combat ship the Navy intends to build, was commissioned Saturday at Port Panama City in Florida and will soon sail to San Diego, its permanent home port.<\/p>\n<p>The 418-foot Pierre is a high-speed, shallow draft vessel that the Navy says it will use to operate in near-shore waters to conduct mine countermeasures, anti-submarine warfare, surface warfare and maritime security. It cost nearly $600 million to build.<\/p>\n<p>The Navy has built 19 Independence-class warships, which have proven to be more costly to operate than expected. More than a dozen of these ships are homeported in San Diego, the largest Navy installation site on the West Coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The USS Pierre, the last Independence-class littoral combat ship the Navy intends to build, was commissioned Saturday at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[181,23,1703,100,74,76,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-54822","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-latest-headlines","9":"tag-local-news","10":"tag-military","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-san-diego","13":"tag-san-diego-headlines","14":"tag-san-diego-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}