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Flagship of US Navy's Sixth Fleet heading for Black Sea
KYIV. Nov 1 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The flagship of the United States Navy’s Sixth Fleet, USS Mount Whitney, is heading for the Black Sea, the Sixth Fleet’s press service said Monday.
"Sixth Fleet flagship USS Mount Whitney (LCC 20), with embarked SIXTHFLT and STRIKFORNATO staff, began its northbound transit to the Black Sea to operate with our NATO
allies & partners in the region!" it said on Twitter.
USS Mount Whitney flagship is the second Blue Ridge-class command ship, flagship of the U.S. Navy’s Sixth Fleet. It began service on January 16, 1971. It named after Mount Whitney, the tallest mountain in the Sierra Nevada range, located in the state of California.
It participated in operations in the Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean, Caribbean, Indian Ocean. It took part in the operation in Haiti in 1994. The flagship of the U.S. Sixth Fleet has been based in the Italian port of Gaeta since 2005.
