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Navy Ships
USS Ford Launch Moved Back From July to November
Daily Press, Newport News, Va. | May 07, 2013
The Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier will be launched in November as opposed to July as was originally set in a contract between the Navy and Newport News Shipbuilding, a Navy official said. "We have agreed to push back the launch of CVN 78 (the Ford's hull number) from July to November," said Christopher Johnson, a spokesman with Naval Sea Syst... more
Navy's Newest Warship Goes on Duty in Anchorage
| May 06, 2013
America's newest warship, the USS Anchorage, was commissioned during a persistent spring snow Saturday morning at the Port of Anchorage. Several thousand people stood or sat in the slush on the dock facing the $1.3 billion ship, a vessel longer than two football fields and capable of carrying up to 800 Marines to combat zones or natural disaster... more
Burned LCS to Resume Testing
Military.com | Apr 15, 2013
There were no injuries and only minor damage to littoral combat ship Coronado following a small on-board fire this past Friday off the coast of Mobile, Ala., Navy officials confirm. The Coronado, due to be commissioned this summer, was getting ready to do a high-powered run in the Gulf of Mexico when crew members noticed smoldering and smoke on... more
Carrier Eisenhower Leaves for Persian Gulf
| Feb 22, 2013
NORFOLK -- Aisha Owmba doesn't know when she'll see her husband again. She and her 6-year-old son waved goodbye Thursday as the aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower pulled away from a pier at Norfolk Naval Station for what has been billed as a four- to five-month deployment. But with big defense cuts looming -- a consequence of Congress's fai... more
Upgraded LCS Starts Certification Trials
Aviation Week's DTI | Feb 02, 2013
This article first appeared in Aviation Week & Space Technology. The sun burns through the morning fog in San Diego as the Navy's first Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) USS Freedom gets underway for certification trials under Cmdr. Tim Wilke, the commanding officer. As Freedom steers toward the harbor, Wilke tells the crew by intercom that the trial... more