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 ...

Defense behemoth General Dynamics Corp.‘s GD National Steel and Shipbuilding Co. (NASSCO) business division secured a modification contract from the U.S. Navy. The deal aims at procuring additional ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...