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Lewis B. Puller and Hershel "Woody" Williams serve as expeditionary mobile bases to support low-intensity missions. This allows more expensive, high-value amphibious warfare ships and surface combatant warships to be re-tasked for more demanding operational missions for the U.S. Navy. [ 3 ] These ESB variants operate in the Middle East and the ...
The Expeditionary Sea Base (ESB) ship class is a highly flexible platform used across various military operations. ESB ships are mobile sea-based assets and are a part of the critical...
The Expeditionary Transfer Dock (ESD) and Expeditionary Sea Base (ESB) ship classes are highly flexible platforms that may be used across a broad range of military operations supporting...
USS Hershel "Woody" Williams (ESB-4) (formerly USNS Hershel "Woody" Williams (T-ESB-4)) is a Lewis B. Puller-class expeditionary mobile base (ESB), currently in service with the United States Navy. The ship is also a sub-variant of the Montford Point-class expeditionary transfer dock (ESD). [10]
Expeditionary Sea Base. An afloat forward staging base-variant of the mobile landing platform designed to provide dedicated support for air mine countermeasures and special warfare missions. The...
USS Miguel Keith (ESB-5) (formerly USNS Miguel Keith (T-ESB-5)) is a Lewis B. Puller-class expeditionary mobile base, one of three such ships in service with the United States Navy (USN) as of late 2021.
Beam: 50 Meters (164 feet) Displacement: 78,000 tons (fully loaded) Draft: 9 Meters (fully loaded); 12 Meters (load line) Speed: 15 knots. Range: 9500 nautical miles. Crew: 34 Military Sealift...
The Navy’s expeditionary sea base ships do have a unique look—almost as if the Navy purchased an Alaskan oil tanker, cut out the middle section, built a parking garage, then stuck a 50,000-square-foot flight deck on top.
Seth Brower, ship’s master of the Lewis B. Puller-class expeditionary mobile base USS Miguel Keith (ESB 5), leads a tour for Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) Rear Adm.
The U.S. Navy recently commissioned a first-in-its-class Expeditionary Sea Base to be named after the most storied Marine in the Corps’ history.