USS Coronado (LCS-4)

(PCU) Coronado (LCS-4) will be an. She will be the third ship of the United States Navy to be named after Coronado, California. A contract was awarded to General Dynamics-Bath Iron Works in May 2009 for the construction of LCS-4.

Design
Coronado will be the second LCS to feature a high-speed trimaran hull and will be designed to defeat littoral threats and provide access in coastal waters for missions such as mine warfare, anti-submarine warfare and surface warfare. There are two different LCS hull forms – the Independence-class aluminum trimaran, and the semiplaning monohull designed and built by Lockheed Martin. These seaframes will be outfitted with reconfigurable payloads, called mission packages, which can be changed out quickly. Mission packages are supported by special detachments that will deploy manned and unmanned vehicles and sensors. Coronado is being built by Austal USA in Mobile, Alabama.

Construction
The ship's keel was laid on 17 December 2009.

She was launched and christened during a ceremony in Mobile Bay on 14 January 2012 by Susan Keith, the daughter of Eleanor Ring who christened the USS Coronado (AGF-11) in 1966.

Fire is feared on all the ships of the Independence class, and the delivery of Coronado was delayed by two fires during her builder's trials. USS Coronado was delivered on 27 September 2013. Commissioning is planned for April 2014 at her namesake city.