U.S. Navy Ships 

This comprehensive guide to major classes of US Navy ships includes currently operational classes, new classes under development, and classes that have been retired since the end of the Cold War.

        

Aircraft Carriers

Command

Surface Warfare

Submarines

Submarine Tenders

Amphibious Assault

Amphibious

Mine Warfare

Sealift

Landing Craft

Special Operations

Intelligence

Auxiliary

Sources and Resources

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Introduction           Back to Top

Boats for Beginners

US Navy Ships - Shipboard Combat Systems

Aircraft Carriers

Where are the Carriers?

CV-9 Essex CV-41 Midway
 CVA-58 United States
 CV-59 Forrestal
 CV-63 Kitty Hawk
CV-67 John F. Kennedy CVN-65 Enterprise CVN-68 Nimitz
 CVN-77
 CVX-78


Command      Back to Top

AGF-3   La Salle AGF-11 Coronado LCC-19 Blue Ridge JCC(X)


Surface Warfare      Back to Top

Arsenal Ship

BB-61 Iowa

CGN-9 Long Beach

 CG-16 Leahy CGN-25 Bainbridge CG-26 Belknap
CGN-35 Truxtun CGN-36 California CGN-38 Virginia CG-47 Ticonderoga CG-21 DD-963 Spruance
DDG-993 Kidd DDG-2 Charles F. Adams DDG-37 Farragut DDG-51 Arleigh Burke DD-21 Zumwalt FF-1037 Bronstein
FF-1052 Knox FF-1098 Glover FFG-7 Oliver Hazard Perry NFR-90 PHM-1 Pegasus Sea Shadow


Submarines      Back to Top

SSN-585 Skipjack
 SSN-594 Permit
 SSN-637 Sturgeon
 SSN-640 Benjamin Franklin
 SSN-671 Narwhal
 SSN-685 Glenard P. Lipscomb
 SSN-687 Richard B. Russell SSN-688 Los Angeles SSN-21   Seawolf
 SSN-774 Virginia NSSN
SSN- FAS
 SSBN-598 George Washington SSBN-608 Ethan Allen SSBN-616 Lafayette SSBN-640 Benjamin Franklin SSBN-726 Ohio SSGN-726 Ohio DSRV LSV  


Submarine Tenders      Back to Top

AS-19 Proteus
 AS-31 Hunley
 AS-33 Simon Lake
 AS-36 L.Y. Spear
 AS-39 Emory Land
 ASR-7 Chanticleer
 ASR-21 Pigeon


Amphibious Assault      Back to Top

LPH-2 Iwo Jima LHA-1 Tarawa
 LHD-1 Wasp
 LHX 
 Sea Base


Amphibious      Back to Top

LPD-1 Raleigh
 LPD-4 Austin
 LPD-17 San Antonio
 LSD-36 Anchorage
 LSD-41 Whidbey Island
 LSD-49 Harpers Ferry
 LST-1179 Newport
 LKA-113 Charleston


Mine Warfare      Back to Top

MCS-12 Inchon
 MCM-1 Avenger
 MHC-51 Osprey
 MSO-422 Aggressive
 MSO-508 Acme

Sealift      Back to Top

T-ACS 4 Gopher State
 T-AH 19 Mercy 
 T-AK 1005 Austral Rainbow
 T-AK 2049 Green Valley
 T-AK 2062 American Cormorant
 T-AK 3000 Hague
 T-AK 3005 Kocak
 T-AK 3008 Bobo
 T-AK 3015 Martin
 T-AK 4296 Bennett
T-AK 5029 Cape Jacob
 T-AK 5089 Titus
 T-AK 9301 Buffalo Soldier
 T-AK 9655 Green Ridge
 T-AKR 287 Algol
 T-AKR 295 Shughart
 T-AKR 296 Gordon 
 T-AKR 300 Bob Hope
 Sea Base 
 T-AKR Cape-class RO/RO
T-AKR 9025 Strong Virginian
 T-AOT 181 Potomac
 T-AOT 5075 American Osprey
 T-AVB 3 Wright
 HSS NDRF
 RRF
 MSP
 VISA
  


Craft and Boats

Army Watercraft

Landing Craft      Back to Top

LCM
 LCU
 LCAC


Special Operations      Back to Top

PC- 1 Cyclone
 PC-14 Tornado
 Mark V SOC
 RHIB
 SDV
 DDS 


Intelligence      Back to Top

SSN-683 Parche
 AGSS 555 Dolphin
 NR-1
 DSV
 T-AGM-23 Observation Island
 T-AGOS-1 Stalwart
 T-AGOS-19 Victorious
T-AGOS-23 Impeccable 
 T-AGOS-10 Invincible
 T-ARC-7 Zeus
 T-AGS 26 Silas Bent
 T-AGS 45 Waters
 T-AGS 51 John McDonnell
 T-AGS 60 Pathfinder

 

Auxiliary      Back to Top

ADC-X
 AE-21 Suribachi
 T-AE-26 Kilauea
 T-AFS 1 Mars
 T-AFS 8 Sirius
 AO-51 Ashtabula
 AO-177 Cimarron
 T-AO-187 Henry Kaiser AOE-1 Sacramento
 AOE-6 Supply
 AOR-1 Wichita
 AD-37 Samuel Gompers
 AD-41 Yellowstone
 AR-5 Vulcan
ARS-38 Bolster
 ARS-50 Safeguard
 T-ATF-166 Powhatan
 ATS-1 Edenton
 T-AGM-9 Gen. H.H. Arnold
 T-AGM-19 Vanguard
 T-AGM-22 Range Sentinel


Other Auxiliaries      Back to Top

USS Constitution

Sources and Resources      Back to Top

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