By CHRISTOPHER P. CAVAS
WASHINGTON — The littoral combat ship (LCS) Freedom suffered minor flooding Oct. 20 when about three feet of water was discovered in the bilge, the lowest part of the ship.
The LCS was pierside at the Changi Naval Base in Singapore and was in no danger, the Navy said.
The ship’s crew controlled the flooding and dewatered the space, said Capt. Darryn James, spokesman for the US Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor.
“The problem was traced to a small rupture in a seawater service system pipe,” he said.
Impacts from the flooding are not severe, James added, and the problem “will result in minimal operational impact to the ship.”
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