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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.
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Maine and Texas were part of the "New Navy" program of the 1880s. Texas and BB-1 to BB-4 were authorized as "coast defense battleships", but Maine was ordered as an armored cruiser and was only re-rated as a "second class battleship" when she turned out too slow to be a cruiser.
It can be awe-inspiring to climb aboard the USS Midway, a former United States Navy aircraft carrier that was, until 1955, the largest ship in the world. After serving in the Vietnam War and ...
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 95 new ships are in either the planning and ordering ...
United States Alabama: Mobile: United States: 1942 South Dakota class (1939) Battleship: Led the American Fleet into Tokyo Bay on September 5, 1945 [2] USS Albacore: United States New Hampshire: Portsmouth: United States: 1953 Albacore Class: Submarine: National Register of Historic Places [3] USS Aries (PHM-5) United States Missouri Gasconade ...
Amphibious command ships (LCC) of the United States Navy are large, special purpose ships, originally designed to command large amphibious invasions. However, as amphibious invasions have become less likely, they are now used as general command ships , and serve as floating headquarters for two, forward deployed, numbered Fleet commands.
Watson-class vehicle cargo ship – 8 active; Bob Hope-class vehicle cargo ship – 7 active; Shughart-class vehicle cargo ship – 3 active; Gordon-class vehicle cargo ship – 2 active; Supply-class fast combat support ship – 2 active; Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo ship – 14 active; Henry J. Kaiser-class replenishment oiler – 15 active