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On 18 May 2023, the navy awarded US$3.2 billion to the Austal USA shipyard in Mobile, Alabama to construct seven Explorer-class vessels.On May 30, 2024, the Navy awarded an additional $516 million to account for cost growth on the procurement of the first ship. [1]
The MV Aquarius, formerly Aquarius Dignitus and Aquarius 2, is a 1977-built dual-flagged [4] (Germany and Panama) search and rescue vessel, which has been used to rescue refugees and migrants stranded in the Mediterranean Sea since 2016.
On 8 March 2009, Impeccable was 75 miles south of Hainan, China, when it was shadowed by five Chinese ships: a Bureau of Maritime Fisheries Patrol Vessel, a State Oceanic Administration patrol vessel, a PLA Navy ocean surveillance ship, and two Chinese-flagged naval trawlers, which maneuvered close to Impeccable, with two closing in to 50 feet ...
The Soviet and later Russian ships were purpose built vessels for their role. Kosmonaut Vladimir Komarov, 1966–1989 (scrapped) Akademik Sergei Korolev, 1970–1996 (scrapped) Kosmonavt Yuri Gagarin, 1971–1996 (scrapped) Kosmonaut Viktor Patsaev , 1978–2001 (museum attraction) Kosmonaut Georgy Dobrovolsky , 1978–2006 (scrapped)
The Navajo class is a class of Towing, Salvage and Rescue Ships for the Military Sealift Command of the United States Navy.They were ordered in 2017 as the planned replacement for the aging Safeguard-class rescue and salvage ships and Powhatan-class tugboats.
The Naval Vessel Register (NVR) is the official inventory of ships and service craft in custody of or titled by the United States Navy.It contains information on ships and service craft that make up the official inventory of the Navy from the time a vessel is authorized through its life cycle and disposal.
USS George Washington Carrier Strike Group underway in the Atlantic USS Constitution under sail for the first time in 116 years on 21 July 1997 The United States Navy has approximately 470 ships in both active service and the reserve fleet; of these approximately 50 ships are proposed or scheduled for retirement by 2028, while approximately 95 new ships are in either the planning and ordering ...
The Impeccable-class ocean surveillance ship is a single-ship class of United States Navy special mission-support ship.The original intention was to build six undersea ocean-surveillance ships carrying a SURTASS passive towed array and a Low Frequency Active transducer array.