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 ...

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 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 ...

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 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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fleet oilers under construction at NASSCO in Barrio Logan. Photo courtesy of the shipyard General Dynamic’s NASSCO shipyard in Barrio Logan was awarded a $600 million Navy contract Wednesday for ...

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 ...