List of currently active United States military watercraft
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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
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- Nimitz class – 10 active
- Gerald R. Ford class – 1 active
Amphibious assault ships
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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)
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Cable repair ships
[edit]- Zeus class – 1 active
Cargo and replenishment ships
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- 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
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- Mercy class – 2 active
Landing craft
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- 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
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- 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)
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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]- USCG seagoing buoy tender
- USCG coastal buoy tender
- USCG inland buoy tender
- USCG inland construction tender
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.