List of currently active United States military watercraft
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)
Aircraft carriers
USS Nimitz, the lead ship of her class of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, known as 'supercarriers'.
- Nimitz class – 10 active
- Gerald R. Ford class – 1 active
Amphibious assault ships
Wasp class amphibious assault ship takes aboard a Landing Craft Utility
- Wasp class – 8 active
- America class – 1 active
Amphibious command ships
- Blue Ridge class – 2 active
Amphibious transport docks
- San Antonio class – 11
Attack submarines
Seawolf-class submarine
- Los Angeles class – 32 active
- Seawolf class – 3 active
- Virginia class – 17 active
Ballistic missile submarines
- Ohio class – 14 active
Classic frigate
- USS Constitution – oldest commissioned ship in USN, an 'Original Six' frigate, circa. 1797. Not counted as part of the deployed combat fleet.
Destroyers
- Arleigh Burke class – 67 active
- Zumwalt class – 2 active
Dock landing ships
- Whidbey Island class – 8 active
- Harpers Ferry class – 4 active
Expeditionary mobile base
- (sub-variant of the expeditionary transfer dock)
- Montford Point class
- USS Lewis B. Puller (ESB-3) – sole commissioned ship of a non-commissioned class of MSC ships.
Guided missile submarines
- Ohio class – 4 active
Littoral combat ships
- Freedom class – 9 active
- Independence class – 10 active
Mine countermeasures ships
- Avenger class – 11 active
Patrol boats
- Cyclone class – 13 active
Submarine tenders
- Emory S. Land class – 2 active
Technical research ship
- USS Pueblo (AGER-2) – currently held captive by North Korea. Still in commission, but not counted as part of the deployed combat fleet.
Non-commissioned ships (MSC)
(List includes "Support" and "Ready Reserve Force" ships)
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USNS Bridge (Supply class)
Cable repair ships
- Zeus class – 1 active
Cargo and replenishment ships
USNS Big Horn (Henry J. Kaiser-class oiler)
- 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
- Gopher State class – 3 active
- Keystone State class – 3 active
Expeditionary transfer dock
- Montford Point class
- Expeditionary Transfer Dock (ESD) – 2 active
- Expeditionary Mobile Base (ESB) – 2 active (1 commissioned)
High speed vessels
- 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]
Landing craft
LCAC
- Landing Craft Air Cushion – 74 active
- Landing Craft Utility 1610, 1627 and 1646 – 32 active
Salvage ships
- Safeguard class – 4 active
Surveillance, intelligence and survey vessels
- 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
- 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)
Surface craft
Small Unit Riverine Craft
- 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
- Advanced SEAL Delivery System
- Swimmer Delivery Vehicle (Mk 8)
- Surface-Planing Wet Submersible
Cutters (USCG)
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USCG Legend-class cutter
Patrol ships
- Hamilton-class cutter 3
- Legend-class National Security Cutter, Large 6
- USCGC Alex Haley (WMEC-39)
- Famous-class Medium Endurance Cutter 13
- Reliance-class Medium Endurance Cutter 14
- Sentinel-class cutter 27
Patrol boats
- Island-class patrol boat 41
- 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
Tenders
- USCG seagoing buoy tender
- USCG coastal buoy tender
- USCG inland buoy tender
- USCG inland construction tender
Support craft (US Army)
Logistics support vessel
- General Frank S. Besson-class logistics support vessel – 8
Landing craft
- Runnymede class large landing craft – 35
- Landing Craft Mechanized
- LCM-8, Mod 1 - 34
- LCM-8, Mod 2 - 6
Tug boats
Support craft (USAF)
Tug boats
- Rising Star tugboat (Thule AFB harbor)
Recovery craft
- 82nd ATRS drone recovery watercraft (x3 120ft recovery vessels, x2 smaller boats)
See also
- Currently active military equipment by country
References
- http://www.professionalmariner.com/Web-Bulletin-2016/US-Navy-to-lease-high-speed-transport-to-Bay-Ferries/
- http://www.maritime-executive.com/article/refit-completed-on-leased-us-navy-fast-ferry
- https://www.navytimes.com/flashpoints/2017/08/03/navys-stealthy-combatant-craft-assault-boats-operate-in-middle-eastern-waters/
- https://www.navyrecognition.com/index.php/focus-analysis/naval-technology/2234-meet-the-new-ccm-mk1-naval-special-warfare-craft-of-the-us-special-forces.html
- https://vigor.net/projects/combatant-craft-medium-ccm
- https://www.janes.com/images/assets/229/55229/US_special_operations_craft_evolve.pdf
- https://www.shephardmedia.com/news/special-operations/sof-looks-next-generation-cch/
- http://www.uscg.mil/datasheet/25rbs.asp
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