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The Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport (EPF) is a United States Navy–led shipbuilding program to provide a high-speed, shallow draft vessel intended for rapid intra-theater transport of medium-sized cargo payloads. The EPFs can reach speeds of 35–45 knots (65–83 km/h; 40–52 mph), and allow the rapid transit and deployment of ...
The Algol-class vehicle cargo ships, also known as Fast Sealift Ships (FSS) or SL-7s, are currently the fastest conventional steam powered cargo ships in the world that are still (intermittently) operating, capable of speeds in excess of 33 knots (61 km/h).
On Wednesday, the vessel UHL Felicity bringing wind turbine tower sections from Portugal reached the Port of New Bedford. New Bedford was once the city that lit the world, exporting vast ...
Military Sealift Command ships as of January 2022 [1]. This is a list of Military Sealift Command ships.The fleet includes about 130 ships in eight programs: Fleet Oiler (PM1), Special Mission (PM2), Strategic Sealift (PM3), Tow, Salvage, Tender, and Hospital Ship (PM4), Sealift (PM5), Combat Logistics Force (PM6), Expeditionary Mobile Base, Amphibious Command Ship, and Cable Layer (PM7) and ...
Commander P.A. "Tony" Lilly was in command. Assigned to TF 77—the fast carrier force operating in the Sea of Japan—Uhlmann resumed the screening and plane guard duties which had occupied much of her time in World War II. She later joined TF 95, a blockade and escort force, and carried out day and night bombardment of the Korean coast.
It is the fourth ship in naval service named after Yuma, Arizona. [3] The ship was christened on 20 August 2016 by ship's sponsor Janet Napolitano and launched at Austal USA in Mobile, Alabama on 17 September 2016. [4] The Yuma completed acceptance trials on 26 January 2017 [5] and its delivery was accepted by the U.S. Navy on 21 April 2017. [2]
The ship's name was announced in 2016 as Bismarck. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The keel was laid on 18 January 2017, [ 1 ] [ 7 ] by which point the ship's name had been changed to City of Bismarck. [ 8 ] The state of North Dakota was represented at the ceremony by Robert O. Wefald , a retired Navy officer, former state Attorney General, and longtime resident ...
USNS Brunswick (JHVS-6/T-EPF-6), [2] is the sixth Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport, [1] currently in service with the United States Navy ' s Military Sealift Command. [3] It is the fourth ship in naval service named after Brunswick, Georgia. [4]