List of currently active United States military watercraft
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The United States military has numerous types of watercraft, operated by the Navy, including Naval Special Warfare Command and Military Sealift Command, as well as the Coast Guard, Army and Air Force
Commissioned ships (USN)
Aircraft carriers
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/USS_Nimitz_in_Victoria_Canada_036.jpg/250px-USS_Nimitz_in_Victoria_Canada_036.jpg)
- Template:Sclass- – 10 active
- Template:Sclass- – 1 active
Amphibious assault ships
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/USS_Essex_Thailand.jpg/250px-USS_Essex_Thailand.jpg)
- Template:Sclass- – 8 active
- Template:Sclass- – 2 active
Amphibious command ships
- Template:Sclass- – 2 active
Amphibious transport docks
- Template:Sclass- – 11 active
Attack submarines
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Defense.gov_News_Photo_960703-N-00000-001.jpg/250px-Defense.gov_News_Photo_960703-N-00000-001.jpg)
- Template:Sclass- – 32 active
- Template:Sclass- – 3 active
- Template:Sclass- – 19 active
Ballistic missile submarines
- Template:Sclass- – 14 active
Classic frigate
- USS Constitution – oldest commissioned ship in USN, an 'Original Six' frigate, circa. 1797. Not counted as part of the deployed combat fleet.
Cruisers
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/USSLeyteGulfCG-55.jpg/250px-USSLeyteGulfCG-55.jpg)
- Template:Sclass- – 22 active
Destroyers
- Template:Sclass- – 67 active
- Template:Sclass- – 2 active
Dock landing ships
- Template:Sclass- – 8 active
- Template:Sclass- – 4 active
Expeditionary mobile base
- (sub-variant of the expeditionary transfer dock)
Guided missile submarines
- Template:Sclass- – 4 active
Littoral combat ships
- Template:Sclass- – 9 active
- Template:Sclass- – 11 active
Mine countermeasures ships
- Template:Sclass- – 8 active
Patrol boats
- Template:Sclass- – 13 active
Submarine tenders
- Template:Sclass- – 2 active
Technical research ship
- USS Pueblo (AGER-2) – currently held captive by North Korea. Still in commission, but not counted as part of the deployed combat fleet.
Non-commissioned ships (MSC)
(List includes "Support" and "Ready Reserve Force" ships)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/USNS_Bridge_%28T-AOE_10%29.jpg/250px-USNS_Bridge_%28T-AOE_10%29.jpg)
Cable repair ships
- Template:Sclass- – 1 active
Cargo and replenishment ships
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/USNS_Big_Horn_T-AO-198.jpg/250px-USNS_Big_Horn_T-AO-198.jpg)
- Template:Sclass- – 8 active
- Template:Sclass- – 7 active
- Template:Sclass- – 3 active
- Template:Sclass- – 2 active
- Template:Sclass- – 2 active
- Template:Sclass- – 14 active
- Template:Sclass- – 15 active
Crane ships
- Template:Sclass- – 3 active
- Template:Sclass- – 3 active
Expeditionary transfer dock
- Template:Sclass-
- Expeditionary Transfer Dock (ESD) – 2 active
- Expeditionary Mobile Base (ESB) – 3 active (2 commissioned)
High speed vessels
- Template:Sclass- – 9 active
- Stand-alone vessels;
- Sea Fighter (FSF-1) – active
- USNS Guam (HST-1) – active
- HST-2 (unnamed) – leased to civilian ferry service[1][2]
Hospital ships
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/USNS_Comfort_Statue_of_Liberty.jpg/250px-USNS_Comfort_Statue_of_Liberty.jpg)
- Template:Sclass- – 2 active
Landing craft
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/LCAC-55_maneuvers_to_enter_the_well_deck.jpg/250px-LCAC-55_maneuvers_to_enter_the_well_deck.jpg)
- Landing Craft Air Cushion – 74 active
- Landing Craft Utility 1610, 1627 and 1646 – 32 active
Salvage ships
- Template:Sclass- – 4 active
Surveillance, intelligence and survey vessels
- Template:Sclass- – 1 active
- Template:Sclass- – 1 active
- Template:Sclass- – 6 active
- Template:Sclass- – 2 active
- Template:Sclass- – 4 active
Tug boats
- Template:Sclass- – 4 active
- Template:Sclass- – 8 active
- Template:Sclass- – 6 active
Special Warfare and Coastal Riverine Force (NSW)
Surface craft
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Riverine_Squadron_2_Iraq_2007.jpg/250px-Riverine_Squadron_2_Iraq_2007.jpg)
- Combat Rubber Raiding Craft
- Small unit riverine craft
- Riverine Command Boat
- Rigid Raider
- Mark V Special Operations Craft
- Special Operations Craft - Riverine (SOC-R)
- Mark VI Patrol Boat
- Coastal Command Boat (CCB)
- Combatant Craft Assault (CCA)[3]
- Combatant Craft Medium (CCM)[4][5]
- Combatant Craft Heavy (CCH)[6][7]
Swimmer delivery vehicles
Cutters (USCG)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/USCG_National_Security_Cutter_BERTHOLF_%28WMSL-750%29.jpeg/250px-USCG_National_Security_Cutter_BERTHOLF_%28WMSL-750%29.jpeg)
Patrol ships
- Template:Sclass- 2
- Legend-class National Security Cutter, Large 8
- USCGC Alex Haley (WMEC-39)
- Famous-class Medium Endurance Cutter 13
- Reliance-class Medium Endurance Cutter 14
- Template:Sclass2- 38
Patrol boats
- Template:Sclass2- 30
- Template:Sclass2- 73
- 47-foot Motor Lifeboat 117
- Response boat-medium 48
- USCG Utility Boat 156
- USCG Long Range Interceptor 10
- Defender class Response boat-small 300[8]
- USCG transportable port security boat
- Over the horizon boat
- Short Range Prosecutor 10
Icebreakers
- Template:Sclass2- 9 active
- Template:Sclass2- 1 active
- Stand-alone vessels;
Tenders
- USCG seagoing buoy tender
- USCG coastal buoy tender
- USCG inland buoy tender
- USCG inland construction tender
Support craft (US Army)
Logistics support vessel
Landing craft
- Runnymede class large landing craft – 35
- Landing Craft Mechanized
- LCM-8, Mod 1 - 34
- LCM-8, Mod 2 - 6
Tug boats
- Template:Sclass- – 6
Support craft (USAF)
Tug boats
- Rising Star tugboat (Thule AFB harbor)
Recovery craft
- 82nd ATRS drone recovery watercraft (x3 120ft recovery vessels, x2 smaller boats)
See also
References
- ^ http://www.professionalmariner.com/Web-Bulletin-2016/US-Navy-to-lease-high-speed-transport-to-Bay-Ferries/
- ^ http://www.maritime-executive.com/article/refit-completed-on-leased-us-navy-fast-ferry
- ^ https://www.navytimes.com/flashpoints/2017/08/03/navys-stealthy-combatant-craft-assault-boats-operate-in-middle-eastern-waters/
- ^ https://www.navyrecognition.com/index.php/focus-analysis/naval-technology/2234-meet-the-new-ccm-mk1-naval-special-warfare-craft-of-the-us-special-forces.html
- ^ https://vigor.net/projects/combatant-craft-medium-ccm
- ^ https://www.janes.com/images/assets/229/55229/US_special_operations_craft_evolve.pdf
- ^ https://www.shephardmedia.com/news/special-operations/sof-looks-next-generation-cch/
- ^ http://www.uscg.mil/datasheet/25rbs.asp