San Diego shipyard General Dynamics NASSCO on Wednesday started construction on the future USS Robert E. Simanek (ESB 7), the fifth ship of the Navy’s reclassified Expeditionary Sea Base (ESB) program ...

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 ...

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 and Survey ...

General Dynamics Corp.'s GD business subsidiary, National Steel and Shipbuilding Co. (NASSCO), recently secured a $1.08-billion contract for the construction of Expeditionary Sea Base (ESB) 6 and 7 ...

The USS Lewis B. Puller is an expeditionary sea base stationed in the Arabian Sea. Houthi rebels in Yemen claimed they hit the Puller on January 29, but US officials denied it. Last month, two Navy ...

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 ...

Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer has named the first ship in his terms after a Marine Medal of Honor recipient from the Vietnam War. Spencer named the fifth Expeditionary Sea Base (ESB) after ...

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, ...

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 ...

The US Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship Mine Countermeasure (MCM) mission package has been trialled on Expeditionary Sea Base (ESB) ship, USNS Hershel ‘Woody’ Williams. In a three day test programme ...