San Diego shipbuilder General Dynamics NASSCO recently christened USNS Robert E. Simanek (ESB 7), the fifth ship for the U.S. Navy’s Expeditionary Sea Base (ESB) program. The ESB ship class is a ...

It's a great moment when a Navy ship enters active service, honoring an important figure in the U.S.’s military history. Their memory continues to live on and every action of the new ship becomes an ...

The future USNS Miguel Keith (ESB 5) departs General Dynamics National Steel and Shipbuilding Co. shipyard in San Diego, Calif. During the weeklong acceptance trials, the Navy’s Board of Inspection ...

The U.S. Navy is taking decided measures to improve the mission versatility and lethality of its Expeditionary Sea Base (ESB) ships, a move intended to greatly fortify the services Pacific posture and ...

U.S. Navy Expeditionary Sea Base (ESB) ships continue to take on additional mission sets as the service builds the class of ships to enhance its forward presence, drone command and control systems, ...

The U.S. Navy commissioned its newest Expeditionary Sea Base (ESB) ship USS Miguel Keith (ESB 5) Saturday, at Naval Air Station North Island, Coronado, Calif. Built by General Dynamics NASSCO, the 785 ...

August 25, 2022: The U.S. Marine Corps recently decided to retire the first two of its new ESB (Expeditionary Mobile Base) ships because these two smaller ESD variants were built mainly to test the ...