A commissioning ceremony will be held today for the 684’x105’x23’ amphibious transport dock USS Richard M. McCool Jr. (LPD 29 ...

The U.S. Navy’s San Antonio-class amphibious transport docks (LPDs) represent a versatile and cost-effective solution for ...

Though he was peppered by shrapnel and severely burned after a kamikaze pilot slammed into his ship, Lt. Richard McCool Jr.

Allegations of sexual assault on ships that ferry goods around the world have put the ocean shipping industry under a harsher ...

Today's US Navy is poorly equipped to support a landing force, but that wasn't the case decades ago when it had ships like ...

Back in May, a landing craft from the USS Wasp was involved ... it comes to medical capabilities at ships based at Naval Station Norfolk. The Norfolk-based assault ship entered the eastern ...

Members of the new USS Richard M. McCool, Jr. prepare for the ship's commissioning ceremony to be held Saturday at Pensacola ...

amphibious assault ships usually have a well deck on the underside of the structure to launch landing craft and other amphibious vehicles. The primary purpose of these ships is to enable military ...

Navy Capt. Thomas Kelley participated Friday ... On June 15, 1969, Kelley was a lieutenant in charge of eight river assault crafts tasked with extracting a company of Army troops in Kien Hoa ...

The Combat Boat 90 (CB90) is a Swedish military high-speed amphibious landing craft developed by Dockstavarvet ... The CB90 was originally developed for the needs of the Swedish Navy. In 1990, the ...

followed by the deployment of armored vehicles via U.S. Navy and ROKN landing craft including landing craft, air cushion hovercraft and tank landing ships. The airborne assault involved a tactical ...

On April 1, 1945, approximately 60,000 U.S. Marines and soldiers of the U.S. Tenth Army waded ashore from landing craft onto ... U.S. amphibious assault, had their pick of Navy ships sitting ...