The US Navy has commissioned the fast-attack Virginia-class submarine USS New Jersey (SSN 796) in a traditional ceremony held at Naval Weapons Station Earle in Middletown, New Jersey.
The San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock USS Richard M. McCool, Jr. (LPD 29) was commissioned at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, on September 7, 2024.
Austal USA has launched the U.S. Navy’s 15th expeditionary fast transport (EPF) USNS Point Loma at the company’s shipbuilding facility in Mobile, Alabama.
Austal USA has started construction on the U.S. Coast Guard’s Heritage-class offshore patrol cutter (OPC) at its Mobile, Alabama, ship manufacturing facility.
A 40,000-ton logistics support vessel of the U.S. Navy has entered Hanwha Ocean’s Geoje shipyard in South Korea for maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services.
General Dynamic Bath Iron Works (BIW) has laid the keel for the future USS William Charette (DDG 130), an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, being built for the U.S. Navy. The keel laying ceremony was held on August 29 for the ship named in honor of Master Chief Hospital Corpsman William
The U.S. Navy commissioned Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Kingsville (LCS 36) at the Solomon P. Ortiz Center, on August 24, 2024.
One of the US Navy’s newest attack submarines, the future USS IDAHO (SSN 799), was launched from General Dynamics Electric Boat’s shipyard into the Thames River on August 6, 2024.
The Brazilian Navy, the procurement agency EMGEPRON, and the company Águas Azuis, which was founded by thyssenkrupp, Embraer Defense & Security, and Atech, have held a christening ceremony for the Brazilian Navy’s first Tamandaré-class frigate.
The US Navy has christened the future USNS Point Loma (EPF 15), the second of the Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport (EPF) Flight II configurations, at a ceremony in Mobile, Alabama.
The Corporación de Ciencia y Tecnología para el Desarrollo de la Industria Naval, Marítima y Fluvial (COTECMAR) and Damen Shipyards have signed a contract for technical support and the supply of components for the construction of the Plataforma Estratégica de Superficie (PES – Strategic Surface Plat
The Canadian Coast Guard has dedicated one more Bay Class high-endurance search and rescue lifeboat into service.
Austal USA has successfully launched the future USS Pierre (LCS 38), the last ship of the US Navy’s Independence-variant littoral combat ship (LCS) program.
Austal USA has been awarded a firm-target contract modification for the construction of two additional landing craft utility (LCU) 1700-class vessels for the US Navy.
