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United States Navy

State-operated fleet

Headquarters: The Pentagon
Founded: 1775
Employees: 644,857

Official website

Photo: U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley · Public domain · file

Ships in this registry

593

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

Reported fleet size

—

No published figure available

Container capacity

—

Not a ranked container line

Gross tonnage on record

4,018,741

Summed over 177 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What United States Navy is

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The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and is designated as the navy of the United States in the Constitution. With 290 combat vessels, it is the world's second largest navy, behind the People's Liberation Army Navy, and by far the largest by displacement, at 4.5 million tons in 2021. It has the world's largest aircraft carrier fleet, with eleven in service, one undergoing trials, two new carriers under construction, and six other carriers planned as of 2024. The Navy is a part of the Department of Defense and is one of six armed forces and eight uniformed services of the United States.

The Navy originates from the Continental Navy, established in the American Revolutionary War. The Naval Act of 1794 provided for constructing six heavy frigates, the first ships of the Navy, in the prelude to the Barbary Wars. The American Civil War saw the blockade of the Confederacy and seizing control of its rivers. In World War II, the Navy was central in defeating the Imperial Japanese Navy in the Pacific War and Kriegsmarine U-boats in the Battle of the Atlantic, supplanting the Royal Navy as the world's largest navy. During the Cold War, the Navy, rivalled by the Soviet Navy, began providing nuclear deterrence via its ballistic missile submarines.

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: —
Legal form: —
Country of registration: United States
Headquarters: The Pentagon
Formed in: —
Founded: 1775
Dissolved: —
Employees: 644,857
Head office coordinates: 38.8708, -77.0550

Ships on record here: 593
Vessel types operated: 19
Flag states used: 18
Average vessel age: 60.5 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1912
Newest vessel on record: 2016
Largest vessel by tonnage: 199,430
Average tonnage: 22,705
Market share: —
Parent company: —
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata
Last refreshed: 2026-09-05

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 593 vessels this registry attributes to United States Navy. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

By flag state

United Arab Emirates1

By shipbuilder

NASSCO31

Marinette Marine30

Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Company27

Avondale Shipyard26

Kaiser Co., Inc.22

Permanente Metals19

Marinship18

Delivery history

10-year fleet record

Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. No deliveries fall inside this window — this company’s vessels on record were all built earlier.

Year	Gross tonnage added	Fleet on record
2017	—	478
2018	—	478
2019	—	478
2020	—	478
2021	—	478
2022	—	478
2023	—	478
2024	—	478
2025	—	478
2026	—	478

Vessel records

Ships on record · Barge

Show all types

Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
SS Cape May	7205958	Barge	United States	1972	47,674	—	275.0 m	Fore River Shipyard

Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.

In context

How United States Navy compares

Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

United States is the country of registration for 144 commercial operators in this directory. Between them those companies hold 435 vessels here. 1 of them carry a published container-capacity ranking. See every operator registered in United States.