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Aircraft carriers stored at the NISMF in Bremerton, 2012.From left to right: Independence, Kitty Hawk, Constellation and Ranger. A Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility (NISMF) is a facility owned by the United States Navy as a holding facility for decommissioned naval vessels, pending determination of their final fate.
The United States Navy Combat Logistics Force (CLF), formerly the Naval Fleet Auxiliary Force (NFAF), is a subordinate component of the United States Navy's Military Sealift Command. CLF's 42 ships are the supply lines that provide virtually everything that Navy ships at sea needs to accomplish its missions, including fuel, food, ordnance ...
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 ...
The Next-Generation Logistics Ship (NGLS) is a programme being undertaken by the United States Navy to construct a fleet of medium-sized auxiliary ships that will provide underway replenishment (UNREPS), disaster relief and logistics capabilities for combined land and sea operations.
Preserved at the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum—New York City, New York, USA [26] CV-12 Hornet: Essex: 29 November 1943 26 June 1970 26 years, 218 days Preserved at USS Hornet Museum—Alameda, California, USA [27] CV-13 Franklin: Essex: 31 January 1944 17 February 1947 2 years, 351 days Scrapped in 1966 [28] CV-14 Ticonderoga: Essex (extended ...
Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise, 15 August 2003 FF-1071 Badger: 1970: 20 December 1991 Knox class Sunk as a target, 22 July 1998 FF-1072 Blakely: 1970: 15 November 1991 Knox class Scrapped, dismantling, 30 September 2000 FF-1073 Robert E. Peary: 1972: 7 August 1992 Knox class Transferred to Taiwan as Chi Yang (FF-932) FF-1074 ...
The National Defense Reserve Fleet (NDRF) consists of ships of the United States, mostly merchant vessels, that have been mothballed but can be activated within 20 to 120 days to provide shipping during national military emergencies, or non-military emergencies such as commercial shipping crises.
The Supply-class fast combat support ships are a class of four United States Navy supply ships used to refuel, rearm, and restock ships in the United States Navy in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. [1]