Members of Congress are trying to block the Navy from putting just under half of its fleet of Spearhead class expeditionary fast transports into a state of reduced readiness with only skeleton crews ...

The Navy has christened a 338-foot expeditionary fast transport ship called Point Loma, making the auxiliary vessel the latest to bear a name that directly or indirectly refers to San Diego. The ship ...

Austal USA began construction Tuesday of the future USNS Point Loma, the 15th expeditionary fast transport of the Spearhead class to be built for the Navy. The transport ship will be the second naval ...

LANSING, MI - A new U.S. Navy ship will be named after Michigan’s capital, officials announced. The future spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport (EFP 16) will be named USNS Lansing, according ...

The future USNS Point Loma underway. (Photo courtesy of Austal USA) Austal USA announced Monday that the future USNS Point Loma, an expeditionary fast transport vessel, has completed acceptance trials ...

At the end of December 2023, we got word of the U.S. Navy being on the verge of receiving three brand-new floating hospitals. They are the Expeditionary Medical Ships (EMS) being built by Austal, but ...

The U.S. Navy christened the future USNS Point Loma, the second of the Spearhead-class Expeditionary Transport Flight II configuration, during a ceremony Saturday in Mobile, Ala. The ship is named in ...

Aug. 10 (UPI) --Austal USA on Saturday officially christened the Point Loma, a U.S. Navy support ship. The ship is named after a peninsula in San Diego, Calif., not far from Naval Amphibious Base ...

The US Navy (USN) has completed a two-day series of at-sea trials with unmanned systems using the Military Sealift Command (MSC’s) Spearhead-class catamaran expeditionary fast transport vessel USNS ...

What just happened? Shipbuilder Austal USA has delivered a ship to the US Navy that can operate for up to 30 days at sea without human intervention. The delivery comes after the Chief of Naval ...

Feb. 24 (UPI) --The United States Navy will christen a new ship named for the city of Cody, Wyo. The Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport ship will be named USNS Cody (EPF 14) and is scheduled ...

Shipbuilding company Austal USA recently delivered Expeditionary Fast Transport USNS Apalachicola (EPF 13) to the US Navy - the largest surface vessel in the fleet equipped with autonomous ...