List of currently active United States military watercraft

The United States has available many types of military watercraft, operated by the Navy including the Military Sealift Command; the Naval Special Warfare Command; the Coast Guard; and the Army.

Commissioned ships (USN)

For a more comprehensive list, see List of current ships of the United States Navy.

Afloat Forward Staging Base

• USS Ponce (AFSB(I)-15)

Aircraft Carriers

USS Nimitz, the lead ship of her class of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, known as 'supercarriers'.

• Nimitz class - 10 active
• Gerald R. Ford class - 1 active (2 under construction, 10 planned)

Amphibious Assault Ships

Wasp class amphibious assault ship takes aboard a Landing Craft Utility

• Wasp class - 8 active
• America class - 1 active (11 planned)

Amphibious Command Ships

• Blue Ridge–class - 2 active

Amphibious Transport Docks

• San Antonio class - 10 (12 planned)

Attack Submarines

Seawolf-class submarine

• Los Angeles class - 36 active
• Seawolf class - 3 active
• Virginia class - 13 active (48 planned)

Ballistic Missile Submarines

• Ohio class - 14 active

Classic Frigate

• USS Constitution - oldest commissioned (non-deployed) ship in USN (an 'Original Six' frigate, circa. 1797)

Cruisers

USS Leyte Gulf (Ticonderoga class)

• Ticonderoga class - 22 active

Destroyers

• Arleigh Burke class - 62 active (76 planned)
• Zumwalt class - 1 active (2 under construction)

Dock Landing Ships

• Whidbey Island class - 8 active
• Harpers Ferry class - 4 active

Guided Missile Submarines

• Ohio class - 4 active

Littoral Combat Ships

• Freedom class - 4 active (13 planned)
• Independence class - 4 active (13 planned)

Mine Countermeasures Ships

• Avenger class - 11 active

Patrol Boats

• Cyclone class - 13 active

Submarine Tenders

• Emory S. Land class - 2 active

Technical Research Ship

• USS Pueblo (AGER-2) - currently held 'captive' by North Korea. Still in commission, but non-deployed.

Non-Commissioned ships (MSC)

See List of Military Sealift Command ships and Maritime Prepositioning ship

USNS Bridge (Supply class)

Cable Repair Ships

• Zeus class - 1 active

Cargo & Replenishment Ships

USNS Big Horn (Henry J. Kaiser-class oiler)

• Watson-class vehicle cargo ship - 8 active
• Bob Hope-class vehicle cargo ship - 7 active
• Shughart-class vehicle cargo ship - 3 active
• Gordon-class vehicle cargo ship - 2 active
• Supply-class fast combat support ship - 3 active (1 in reserve)
• Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo ship - 14 active
• Henry J. Kaiser-class fleet replenishment oiler - 15 active

Crane Ships

• Gopher State class - 3 active
• Keystone State class - 3 active

Expeditionary Transfer Dock

• Montford Point class - 2 active
• Expeditionary Mobile Base (ESB) variant - 1 Conducting sea trials (3 planned)

High Speed Vessels

• Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport - 6 active (11 planned)
• MV Westpac Express (HSV-4676) - active
• Sea Fighter (FSF-1) - active
• USNS Guam (HST-1) - undergoing refit, will replace Westpac Express in FY2017
• USNS Puerto Rico (HST-2) - leased to civilian ferry service

Hospital Ships

The USNS Comfort Hospital ship

• Mercy class - 2 active

Landing Craft

LCAC

• Landing Craft Air Cushion - 74 active
• Landing Craft Utility 1610, 1627 and 1646 - 32 active

Salvage Ships

• Safeguard class - 4 active

Surveillance, Intelligence & Survey Vessels

• Pathfinder-class survey ship - 5 active (1 under construction)
• Victorious-class ocean surveillance ship - 4 active
• Stalwart-class ocean surveillance ship - 2 active (1 as a radar tracking ship, 1 as a training ship)
• Howard O. Lorenzen-class instrumentation ship - 1 active
• Impeccable-class ocean surveillance ship - 1 active

Tug Boats

• Powhatan class - 4 active
• Natick class - 8 active (1 as a non-operation training hulk)
• Valiant class - 6 active

Special Warfare/Coastal Riverine Force (USNSW)

Surface Craft

Small Unit Riverine Craft

• 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)

Swimmer Delivery Vehicles

• Surface-Planing Wet Submersible
• Advanced SEAL Delivery System
• Swimmer Delivery Vehicle, Mk 8

Cutters (USCG)

USCG Legend class cutter

Patrol Ships

• Hamilton-class cutter 8
• Legend-class Maritime Security Cutter, Large 6 (+3)
• USCGC Alex Haley (WMEC-39)
• Famous-class Medium Endurance Cutter 13
• Reliance-class Medium Endurance Cutter 14
• Offshore Patrol Cutter (25 planned. to replace medium endurance cutters)
• Sentinel-class cutter 8 (another 54 planned)

Patrol Boats

• Island-class patrol boat 41
• Marine Protector-class coastal patrol boat 73
• 47-foot Motor Lifeboat 117
• Response boat-medium (45 ft) (170 planned)
• USCG Utility Boat (41 ft) 156
• USCG Long Range Interceptor (36 ft) 10
• Defender class Response boat-small (25 ft) 300 (another 400 planned)
• USCG transportable port security boat (25 ft)
• Over the horizon boat (23 ft)
• Short Range Prosecutor (23 ft) 10

Icebreakers

• Polar class
• USCGC Mackinaw (WLBB-30)
• USCGC Healy (WAGB-20)
• Bay-class icebreaking tug 9

Tenders

• USCG seagoing buoy tender
• USCG coastal buoy tender
• USCG inland buoy tender
• USCG inland construction tender

Support craft (US Army)

Logistics Support Vessel

• General Frank S. Besson-class logistics support vessel - 8

Landing craft

• Runnymede class large landing craft - 35
• Landing Craft Mechanized
  • LCM-8, Mod 1 - 34
  • LCM-8, Mod 2 - 6

Tug boats

• Large Tug 800 - 6
• 100-Foot Large Tug (LT) Flight III - 2
• Small Tug 900 - 16

See also

• Currently active military equipment by country