The following is the Jan. 23, 2025, Congressional Research Service report, Navy Medium Landing Ship (LSM) Program: Background ...

7, 2024. (DoD Photo) Secretary Carlos Del Toro continued his streak of naming ships, as his tenure as the Navy’s top civilian comes to an end. Del Toro dubbed the Medium Landing Ship the McClung ...

The Navy says it will name a landing ship after the late Maj. Megan McClung, the first woman U.S. Marine to be killed during the Iraq War in 2006. McClung, who trained at Camp Pendleton, was a public ...

The Navy's new amphibious transport dock ship will honor a fallen Marine, while two surveillance ships pay tribute to deep ...

Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) announced that its latest ship built for the U.S. Navy was christened the USS Harrisburg, in recognition of the city’s “rich history and longstanding ...

The secretary of the Navy is responsible for naming the Navy’s ships. The future warship, an LPD 33, is an amphibious landing dock which carries Marines on missions. It will be named after ...

The Navy destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62) became the first warship to deploy with a program-of-record artificial ...