Numerous conversions turned a merchant ship into a floating operations centre. The OCEAN TRADER is used by the American special forces to support their worldwide operations. The ship was built in 2011 as the CRAGSIDE at Odense Staalskibsværft for Maersk. The US Navy agreed a long-term leasing contract with Maersk in 2013 and had the ship built between 2015 and 2017.
In July 2024, the South Korean shipyard Hanwha Ocean signed a Master Ship Repair Agreement with the US Naval Supply Systems Command to expand both its maintenance business and its relationship with the US Navy. And the US Navy is relying on these capabilities to address its lack of shipyard capacity, labour shortages and cost and distance issues in the...
The USNS Robert F. Kennedy, the newest ship of the US Navy's Military Sealift Command, was christened at the end of last year at the Nassco shipyard of General Dynamics in San Diego, California. The ship honours Robert F. Kennedy, who was born in 1925 and served as Attorney General from 1961 to 1964.
A fire broke out in the engine room of the USNS Sgt. William R. Button (T-AK-3012, 2nd Lt. John P. Bobo class) in late March, causing her to lose propulsion about 24 miles (about 38 km) off the coast of Dauphin Island in the Gulf of Mexico. Four tugs took the ship to the Alabama shipyard...
At the end of October, United States Navy Ship (USNS) ROBERT F. KENNEDY (T-AO 208) was christened and launched at General Dynamics - National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (GD-NASSCO) in San Diego, California. Tribute USNS "Robert F. Kennedy" is the first naval auxiliary to bear his name in honour of the late US veteran. Robert...
In the harbour town on the Weser, the incoming and outgoing ships have always been registered - and the profile changes with every change in the general weather situation. After the war, as before, it was the traditional fishing vessels of the fishing industry in the southern part of the city and the American military transports that travelled north...
The issue of the VIRGINIA-class Block IV submarine USS NEW JERSEY, which is gender-neutral in its accommodation and hygiene areas (see news from 18 November 2021), is still going on, but some conservative politicians and commentators in the USA took it too far: at the beginning of November, the US Navy...
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