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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 ...
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 ...
USNS Cody (T-EPF-14) will be the fourteenth Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport and will be operated by the United States Navy ' s Military Sealift Command. [1] She will be the first ship in naval service named after Cody, Wyoming, and the first of the Flight II variant designed to have enhanced medical capabilities.
It is the second ship in naval service named after Apalachicola, Florida. [ 4 ] Austal USA has secured a contract from the US Department of Defense to carry out the detailed design, procurement, production implementation, and demonstration of autonomous capability in Expeditionary Fast Transport (EPF) vessel 13 Apalachicola.
USNS Spearhead (JHSV-1/T-EPF-1) is the lead ship of the Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport to be operated by the United States Navy ' s Military Sealift Command. USNS Spearhead was christened on 17 September 2011.
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]
[6] [7] In December of 2024 the vessel departed San Francisco for the United States Maritime Administration Beaumont Reserve Fleet at Beaumont, TX in preparation for an eventual downgrade from the Ready Reserve Force. In the interim the ship remains in ROS-5 status. If activated, Capella will report to the Military Sealift Command [3] Atlantic ...
This is a list of patrol vessels of the United States Navy. Ship status is indicated as either currently active [A] (including ready reserve), inactive [I], or precommissioning [P]. Ships in the inactive category include only ships in the inactive reserve, ships which have been disposed from US service have no listed status.