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Expeditionary Sea Base (ESB) vessel

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Navy commissions $525M warship in San Diego

The U.S. Navy officially commissioned it new $525 million, 785-foot warship Saturday at a ceremony ahead of its departure for the western Pacific sometime this summer.

Construction on the expeditionary sea base Miguel Keith took about two years and is set to be permanently foreign-based. Its first base of operations will be in the U.S. commonwealth of Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands. A commissioning of a Navy vessel means it has been placed in active service.

The Miguel Keith will hold a crew of roughly 100 sailors and 44 civilian mariners. Its massive size allows it to have a flight deck capable of accommodating the Navy's largest helicopters, the MH-53, as well as Marine Corps F-35B jets.

The USS Lewis B. Puller (ESB 3), USS Hershel “Woody” Williams (ESB 4), and follow on ships USNS Miguel Keith (ESB 5), John L. Canley (ESB 6), and Robert E. Simanek (ESB 7) are optimized to support a variety of maritime based missions.

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USS Lewis B Puller is the first purpose-built Expeditionary Mobile Base vessel (previously classified as a mobile landing platform, and then as an afloat forward staging base) for the USN. She is the Lead Ship of her Class of Expeditionary Mobile Bases and is also a sub-variant of the Montford Point Class of Expeditionary Transfer Docks.
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Lewis B Puller Class Expeditionary Mobile Base vessel USNS Hershel Woody Williams pictured at Civitavecchia, Italy, May 4th 2022.
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Lewis B. Puller Class Expeditionary Mobile Base Ship USNS Hershel Woody Williams pictured in Dry Dock at Palumbo Shipyard, Malta on May 24th 2023.
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Lewis B. Puller Class Expeditionary Mobile Base Ship USS John L. Canley pictured on arrival at Naval Air Station North Island in February 2024.
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