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USS George Washington Carrier Strike Group underway in the Atlantic USS Constitution under sail for the first time in 116 years on 21 July 1997 The United States Navy has approximately 470 ships in both active service and the reserve fleet; of these approximately 50 ships are proposed or scheduled for retirement by 2028, while approximately 110 new ships are in either the planning and ordering ...
List of United States Navy ships is a comprehensive listing of all ships that have been in service to the United States Navy during the history of that service. The US Navy maintains its official list of ships past and present at the Naval Vessel Register (NVR), [ 1 ] although it does not include early vessels.
With the ten-ship Nimitz class complete by 2009, October 2013 saw the launch of Gerald R. Ford, lead ship of the planned ten-ship Gerald R. Ford class. This was followed by the launch of John F. Kennedy (CVN-79) in October 2019, while construction is underway on Enterprise (CVN-80) and Doris Miller (CVN-81) .
This is a list of ships of the line of the United States Navy. Because of the operating expense, a number of these were never launched. Because of the operating expense, a number of these were never launched.
USS Essex (CV-9) was an aircraft carrier and the lead ship of the twenty four-ship Essex class. The Essex class was the 20th century's most numerous class of capital ships, was the backbone of the U.S. Navy's combat strength during World War II from mid-1943 on, and (along with the addition of the three Midway -class carriers just after the war ...
List of United States Navy ships: A–B; List of United States Navy ships: C; List of United States Navy ships: D–F; List of United States Navy ships: G–H
Ship name Namesake MC hull no. Ship type Laid down Launched Fate SS S. Hall Young: S. Hall Young: 479 standard 2 March 1943: 31 March 1943: Sold private 1947, scrapped 1967 SS S. M. Babcock: Stephen Moulton Babcock: 590 standard 5 October 1942: 1 November 1942: Scrapped 1967 SS S. M. Shoemaker: S. M. Shoemaker: 2667 standard 8 July 1944: 10 ...
This is a list of frigates of the United States Navy, sorted by hull number. It includes all of the hull classification symbols FF and FFG. Prior to the 1975 ship reclassification , ships that are now classified as FF or FFG were classified as DE or DEG ( destroyer escort ).