USS Charleston (LCS-18).
United States Ship Charleston (LCS-18) is a naval ship of the Independence class of the US Navy. She is now the sixth ship within the U.S. Navy to be named after Charleston, the oldest and largest city in the US state of South Carolina.
This photo was taken on 30 September 2025 from the deck of the USS Midway, which lies as a museum ship in San Diego harbour.
                                
I am Jaap van den Berg and photography has become a great passion of mine since 2010. Since then I travel all over the world to take pictures of military aircrafts. But besides aircraft I also love to photograph other subjects like landscapes, architecture, flowers, animals, .. Read more…