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The United States military has numerous types of watercraft, operated by the Navy, including Naval Special Warfare Command and Military Sealift Command, as well as the Coast Guard, Army and Air Force
Commissioned ships (USN) edit
Aircraft carriers edit
- Nimitz class – 10 active
- Gerald R. Ford class – 1 active
Amphibious assault ships edit
- Wasp class – 7 active
- America class – 2 active
Amphibious command ships edit
- Blue Ridge class – 2 active
Amphibious transport docks edit
- San Antonio class – 12 active
Attack submarines edit
- Los Angeles class – 24 active
- Seawolf class – 3 active
- Virginia class – 22 active
Ballistic missile submarines edit
- Ohio class – 14 active
Classic frigate edit
- USS Constitution – oldest commissioned ship in USN, an 'Original Six' frigate, circa. 1797. Not counted as part of the deployed combat fleet.
Cruisers edit
- Ticonderoga class – 13 active
Destroyers edit
- Arleigh Burke class – 73 active
- Zumwalt class – 2 active
Dock landing ships edit
- Whidbey Island class – 6 active
- Harpers Ferry class – 4 active
Expeditionary mobile base edit
- (sub-variant of the expeditionary transfer dock)
Guided missile submarines edit
- Ohio class – 4 active
Littoral combat ships edit
- Freedom class – 8 active
- Independence class – 15 active
Mine countermeasures ships edit
- Avenger class – 8 active
Submarine tenders edit
- Emory S. Land class – 2 active
Technical research ship edit
- USS Pueblo (AGER-2) – currently[when?] held captive by North Korea. Still in commission, but not counted as part of the deployed combat fleet.
Non-commissioned ships (MSC) edit
(List includes "Support" and "Ready Reserve Force" ships)
Cable repair ships edit
- Zeus class – 1 active
Cargo and replenishment ships edit
- 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
Crane ships edit
- Gopher State class – 3 active
- Keystone State class – 3 active
Expeditionary transfer dock edit
- Montford Point class
- Expeditionary Transfer Dock (ESD) – 2 active
- Expeditionary Mobile Base (ESB) – 3 active (2 commissioned)
High speed vessels edit
- Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport – 9 active
- Stand-alone vessels;
- Sea Fighter (FSF-1) – active
- USNS Guam (HST-1) – active
- HST-2 (unnamed) – leased to civilian ferry service[1][2]
Hospital ships edit
- Mercy class – 2 active
Landing craft edit
- Landing Craft Air Cushion – 74 active
- Landing Craft Utility 1610, 1627 and 1646 – 32 active
Salvage ships edit
- Safeguard class – 2 active
Surveillance, intelligence and survey vessels edit
- Howard O. Lorenzen-class instrumentation ship – 1 active
- Impeccable-class ocean surveillance ship – 1 active
- Pathfinder-class survey ship – 6 active
- Stalwart-class ocean surveillance ship – 2 active
- Victorious-class ocean surveillance ship – 4 active
Tug boats edit
- Powhatan-class fleet ocean tug – 4 active
- Natick-class large harbor tug – 8 active
- Valiant-class harbor tug – 6 active
Special Warfare and Coastal Riverine Force (NSW) edit
Surface craft edit
- Combat Rubber Raiding Craft
- Small unit riverine craft
- Riverine Command Boat
- Rigid Raider
- Mark V Special Operations Craft
- Special Operations Craft - Riverine (SOC-R)
- Mark VI Patrol Boat
- Coastal Command Boat (CCB)
- Combatant Craft Assault (CCA)[3]
- Combatant Craft Medium (CCM)[4][5]
- Combatant Craft Heavy (CCH)[6][7]
Swimmer delivery vehicles edit
Cutters (USCG) edit
Patrol ships edit
- Legend-class National Security Cutter, Large 8
- USCGC Alex Haley (WMEC-39)
- Famous-class Medium Endurance Cutter 13
- Reliance-class Medium Endurance Cutter 14
- Sentinel-class cutter 38
Patrol boats edit
- Island-class patrol boat 30
- Marine Protector-class coastal patrol boat 73
- 47-foot Motor Lifeboat 117
- Response boat-medium 48
- USCG Utility Boat 156
- USCG Long Range Interceptor 10
- Defender class Response boat-small 300[8]
- USCG transportable port security boat
- Over the horizon boat
- Short Range Prosecutor 10
Icebreakers edit
- Bay-class icebreaking tug 9 active
- Polar class 1 active
- Stand-alone vessels;
Tenders edit
Support craft (US Army) edit
Logistics support vessel edit
Landing craft edit
- Runnymede class large landing craft – 35
- Landing Craft Mechanized
- LCM-8, Mod 1 - 34
- LCM-8, Mod 2 - 6
Tug boats edit
Support craft (USAF) edit
Tug boats edit
- Rising Star tugboat (Thule AFB harbor)
Recovery craft edit
- 82nd ATRS drone recovery watercraft (x3 120 ft recovery vessels, x2 smaller boats)
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "US Navy to lease high-speed transport to Bay Ferries". 24 March 2016.
- ^ "Refit Completed on Leased U.S. Navy Fast Ferry".
- ^ "Navy's stealthy Combatant Craft Assault boats operating in Middle Eastern waters". 3 August 2017.
- ^ "Meet the new CCM Mk1 naval special warfare craft of the US Special Forces".
- ^ "Combatant Craft Medium (CCM)".
- ^ "Internal Server Error" (PDF).
- ^ "SOF looks to next generation Combatant Craft Heavy - Shephard Media".
- ^ "USCG: About Us - Aircraft & Cutters". www.uscg.mil. Archived from the original on 2007-05-18.