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 information on the ship and the celebration can be found here.