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  2. Home port - Wikipedia

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    Navy. In a navy, a ship's home port is the port best suited to provide maintenance and restock weaponry particular to ships of that class and build. On conclusion of a tour of duty, a combat vessel returning to port will usually return to its home port. [citation needed] A single home port also makes it easier for family to visit sailors on leave.

  3. List of United States Navy ships - Wikipedia

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    Yard and district craft. v. t. e. List of United States Navy ships is a comprehensive listing of all ships that have been in service to the United States Navy during the history of that service. The US Navy maintains its official list of ships past and present at the Naval Vessel Register (NVR), [1] although it does not include early vessels.

  4. List of current ships of the United States Navy - Wikipedia

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    MV C Champion, a submarine and special warfare support vessel. Ready Reserve Force ships. SS Wright (T-AVB-3), an aviation logistics support ship, the lead ship of her class. SS Pollux (T-AKR-290), a Algol -class vehicle cargo ship. SS Cape Isabel (T-AKR-5062), a Cape I -class vehicle cargo ship.

  5. Naval Base San Diego - Wikipedia

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    Naval Base San Diego, also known as 32nd Street Naval Station, is the second largest surface ship base of the United States Navy and is located in San Diego, California. Naval Base San Diego is the principal homeport of the Pacific Fleet, consisting of over 50 ships and over 150 tenant commands. The base is composed of 13 piers stretched over ...

  6. USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) - Wikipedia

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    USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) is the fifth Nimitz -class aircraft carrier in the United States Navy. She is the third Navy ship to have been named after the former President Abraham Lincoln. Her home port is NAS North Island, San Diego, California; she is a member of the United States Pacific Fleet. She is administratively responsible to ...

  7. USS Blue Ridge (LCC-19) - Wikipedia

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    USS Blue Ridge (LCC-19) is the lead ship of the two Blue Ridge -class amphibious command ships of the United States Navy, and is the flagship of the Seventh Fleet. Her primary role is to provide command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence (C4I) support to the commander and staff of the United States Seventh Fleet.

  8. USS Kearsarge (LHD-3) - Wikipedia

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    USS. Kearsarge. (LHD-3) USS Kearsarge (LHD-3) is the third Wasp -class amphibious assault ship of the United States Navy. She is the fifth ship to bear that name, but the fourth to serve under it, as the third was renamed Hornet (CV-12) before launching (after the prior Hornet was sunk). [2]

  9. USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7) - Wikipedia

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    20 AV-8B Harrier II attack aircraft. or. 20 F-35B Lightning II stealth strike-fighters. 6 SH-60F / HH-60H ASW helicopters. USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7) (landing helicopter dock) is a Wasp -class amphibious assault ship of the United States Navy. The ship was named for the Battle of Iwo Jima of World War II. The ship was commissioned in 2001 and is in ...