MOBILE, Ala. - History set sail recently as the USNS Spearhead, the Navy's first Joint High Speed Vessel, was christened during a ceremony at the shipbuilders' facility in Mobile, Ala. The JHSV is ...

The Military Sealift Command joint high speed vessel USNS Spearhead (JHSV 1) enters the port at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay for a refueling and maintenance stop. (Photo: Mass Communication ...

Check. Cargo transfer? No problem. Troop transport? Bring them aboard. The USNS Spearhead is meant to handle these types of missions and more. And with a top speed of 40 knots, it doesn’t waste ...

USNS Comfort (T-AH-20) will depart Miami on Wednesday for a South and Central America deployment. The Mercy-class hospital ...

JEB LITTLE CREEK-FORT STORY, Va. (WVEC) -- USNS Spearhead left Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story to support Continuing Promise 2018. The ship was supposed to deploy last week ...

At the end of December 2023, we got word of the U.S. Navy being on the verge of receiving three brand-new floating hospitals. They are the Expeditionary Medical Ships (EMS) being built by Austal ...

Austal USA began construction Tuesday of the future USNS Point Loma, the 15th expeditionary fast transport of the Spearhead class to be built for the Navy. The transport ship will be the second ...

but this support fleet will grow even bigger with the autonomous-capable ships of the Spearhead-class currently under construction. The most recent of the breed, the USNS Apalachicola (EPF-13 ...