USS John L. Canley joined the active fleet as the US Navy's newest warship, a floating sea base. The Canley is the Navy's sixth expeditionary mobile base (ESB). The first of its name, the warship ...

The USS Lewis B. Puller is an expeditionary sea base stationed in the Arabian Sea. Houthi rebels in Yemen claimed they hit the Puller on January 29, but US officials denied it. Last month, two Navy ...

U.S. Navy Expeditionary Sea Base (ESB) ships continue to take on additional mission sets as the service builds the class of ships to enhance its forward presence, drone command and control systems, ...

Expeditionary sea base John L. Canley — named after Medal of Honor recipient Marine Sgt. Maj. John Canley — was christened Saturday in San Diego. Military Sealift Command is slated to receive the ...

The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps are building a new fleet of “Sea Basing” ships capable of transporting Marines, launching Special Operations attacks, controlling drones, supporting air operations, and ...

The U.S. Navy commissioned its newest Expeditionary Sea Base (ESB) ship USS Miguel Keith (ESB 5) Saturday, at Naval Air Station North Island, Coronado, Calif.Built by General Dynamics NASSCO, the ...

GULF OF ADEN (July 26, 2022) The Lewis B. Puller-class expeditionary sea base USS Hershel "Woody" Williams (ESB 4) and expeditionary sea base USS Lewis B. Puller (ESB 3) sail alongside one another, ...

August 25, 2022: The U.S. Marine Corps recently decided to retire the first two of its new ESB (Expeditionary Mobile Base) ships because these two smaller ESD variants were built mainly to test the ...

The captain of U.S. Navy ship USS Hershel “Woody” Williams has been relieved of his duties after the ship went aground under his command earlier this year.The Navy is still investigating the incident, ...

A MH-53E Sea Dragon helicopter flies between expeditionary sea base Miguel Keith and littoral combat ship Charleston during Exercise Noble Vanguard. (MC2 Gregory A. Pickett II/Navy) Ships from ...

General Dynamics has drawn a $1.4-billion U.S. Navy contract to build a new Expeditionary Sea Base ship (ESB 8) and two more fleet-replenishment oilers (T-AO 211 and 212.) This contract follows $600 ...

A sweeping slate of proposed ship retirements that would take nine littoral combat ships offline also would end the career of two unconventional seabasing vessels that have less than a decade in ...