Bristol announces Navy ship coming to town for 4th of July

Navy ship to moor in Bristol for Fourth of July Celebration

BRISTOL, R.I. (WLNE) — The Bristol Fourth of July Committee said that the USS Billings would moor outside Bristol for the 239th annual celebration. The committee said the ship is a Freedom-class littoral combat ship that was launched in 2017. The ship took part in “counter-illicit drug trafficking missions” in the Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific Ocean in 2021 and also provided humanitarian aid to Haiti after an earthquake the same year. More i…

Bristol announces Navy ship coming to town for 4th of July

BRISTOL, R.I. (WPRI) — The U.S. Navy is sending the USS Billings up Narragansett Bay to be part of Bristol’s Fourth of July Celebration. The 378-foot Freedom-class littoral combat ship will arrive in Bristol on Thursday, July 3, and leave on Monday, July 7. She is named after Billings, Montana, and is designed for operations in near-shore environments while retaining open-ocean capabilities. The ship will be open for public tours, but those time…