Expeditionary Transports
(HST, HSV, EPF, ESD, ESB)
Most recent update: December 15, 2020.
In recent years, both the Army and the Navy experimented with chartered fast catamaran vessels for coastal transport of troops, particularly in the Pacific region, including two boats built as ferries for service in Hawaii. Now the Navy is building a new class of catamaran troop transport for joint service. The original plan was for ten boats: the force planners talked for a while about a total force of 40 to 50, but the current plan is for 14. In October 2015, the Navy reclassified the Spearhead class from JHSV, which stood for Joint High-Speed Vessel, to EPF, which stands for Expeditionary Personnel Fast.
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| Name | Builder | Location | $M | FY | LOA | LDT | Contract Award |
Lay Keel | Launch | Delivered | K-L (Wks) |
L-D (Wks) |
K-D (Wks) |
Notes | |
| Chartered/Acquired High-Speed Vessels | |||||||||||||||
| HSV-1 | Westpac Express | Austal Ltd. | W. Australia | 130 | 2,111 | 2001 | replaced 2013 by Guam | ||||||||
| HSV-2 | Swift | Incat Ltd. | Tasmania | 61 | 940 | 2002 | |||||||||
| HST-1 | Guam (ex-Huakai) | Austal USA | Mobile AL | 616 | 3,617 | Feb 2009 | acquired 2012 | ||||||||
| HST-2 | Puerto Rico (ex-Alakai) | Austal USA | Mobile AL | 615 | 3,617 | June 2007 | acquired 2012, chartered out 2016 to Bay Ferries | ||||||||
| Expeditionary Fast Transports (formerly JHSV, EPF) | |||||||||||||||
| EPF-1 | Spearhead | Austal USA | Mobile AL | 185 | 08 | 338 | 1,670 | 13 Nov 2008 | 22 Jul 2010 | 12 Sep 2011 | 5 Dec 2012 | 58 | 65 | 123 | |
| EPF-2 | Vigilant/Choctaw County | Austal USA | Mobile AL | 151 | 09 | 338 | 1,670 | 28 Jan 2010 | 8 Nov 2011 | 1 Oct 2012 | 6 Jun 2013 | 47 | 36 | 83 | |
| EPF-3 | Fortitude/Millinocket | Austal USA | Mobile AL | 151 | 09 | 338 | 1,670 | 28 Jan 2010 | 3 May 2012 | 5 Jun 2013 | 21 Mar 2014 | 56 | 41 | 97 | |
| EPF-4 | Fall River | Austal USA | Mobile AL | 152 | 10 | 338 | 1,670 | 12 Oct 2010 | 20 May 2013 | 16 Jan 2014 | 15 Sep 2014 | 33 | 34 | 67 | |
| EPF-5 | Resolute/Trenton | Austal USA | Mobile AL | 152 | 10 | 338 | 1,670 | 12 Oct 2010 | 10 Mar 2014 | 30 Sep 2014 | 13 Apr 2015 | 29 | 28 | 57 | |
| EPF-6 | Brunswick | Austal USA | Mobile AL | 156 | 11 | 338 | 1,670 | 30 Jun 2011 | 2 Dec 2014 | 19 May 2015 | 14 Jan 2016 | 24 | 34 | 58 | |
| EPF-7 | Courageous/Carson City | Austal USA | Mobile AL | 156 | 11 | 338 | 1,670 | 30 Jun 2011 | 31 Jul 2015 | 17 Jan 2016 | 24 Jun 2016 | 24 | 23 | 47 | |
| EPF-8 | Yuma | Austal USA | Mobile AL | 161 | 12 | 338 | 1,670 | 24 Feb 2012 | 30 Mar 2016 | 17 Sep 2016 | 21 Apr 2017 | 24 | 31 | 55 | |
| EPF-9 | Sacrifice/City of Bismarck | Austal USA | Mobile AL | 161 | 12 | 338 | 1,670 | 24 Feb 2012 | 18 Jan 2017 | 8 Jun 2017 | 21 Dec 2017 | 20 | 28 | 48 | |
| EPF-10 | Burlington | Austal USA | Mobile AL | 167 | 13 | 338 | 1,670 | 20 Dec 2012 | 26 Sep 2017 | 1 Mar 2018 | 15 Nov 2018 | 22 | 41 | 63 | |
| EPF-11 | Puerto Rico | Austal USA | Mobile AL | 124 | 16 | 338 | 1,670 | 16 Sep 2016 | 9 Aug 2018 | 13 Nov 2018 | 10 Dec 2019 | 14 | 56 | 70 | |
| EPF-12 | Newport | Austal USA | Mobile AL | 124 | 17 | 338 | 1,670 | 16 Sep 2016 | 29 Jan 2019 | 20 Feb 2020 | 2 Sep 2020 | 46 | 43 | 89 | |
| EPF-13 | Apalachicola | Austal USA | Mobile AL | 185 | 19 | 338 | 1,670 | 25 Mar 2019 | |||||||
| EPF-14 | Cody | Austal USA | Mobile AL | 185 | 20 | 338 | 1,670 | 25 Mar 2019 | July 2022 | ||||||
| EPF-15 | Austal USA | Mobile AL | 235 | 21 | 338 | 1,670 | 26 Feb 2021 | Mar 2024 | |||||||
| Expeditionary Transfer Docks (ESD) and Expeditionary Sea Bases (ESB) | |||||||||||||||
| ESD-1 | Montford Point | NASSCO | San Diego CA | 438 | 11 | 837 | 39,900 | 27 May 2011 | 19 Jan 2012 | 13 Nov 2012 | 14 May 2013 | 42 | 25 | 67 | |
| ESD-2 | John Glenn | NASSCO | San Diego CA | 438 | 11 | 837 | 39,900 | 27 May 2011 | 5 Dec 2012 | 15 Sep 2013 | 12 Mar 2014 | 41 | 26 | 67 | |
| ESB-3 | Lewis B. Puller | NASSCO | San Diego CA | 420 | 12 | 785 | 35,000 | 26 Feb 2012 | 5 Nov 2013 | 7 Nov 2014 | 12 Jun 2015 | 52 | 31 | 83 | |
| ESB-4 | Hershel Woody Williams | NASSCO | San Diego CA | 498 | 15 | 785 | 35,000 | 19 Dec 2014 | 18 Dec 2015 | 19 Aug 2017 | 22 Feb 2018 | 87 | 27 | 114 | |
| ESB-5 | Miguel Keith | NASSCO | San Diego CA | 498 | 16 | 785 | 35,000 | 29 Dec 2016 | 30 Jan 2018 | 10 Aug 2018 | 15 Nov 2019 | 27 | 70 | 97 | |
| ESB-6 | John L. Canley | NASSCO | San Diego CA | 542 | 18 | 785 | 35,000 | 23 Aug 2019 | |||||||
| ESB-7 | Robert E. Simanek | NASSCO | San Diego CA | 542 | 19 | 785 | 35,000 | 23 Aug 2019 | Jan 2025 | ||||||
| ESB-8 | NASSCO | San Diego CA | 542 | 20 | 785 | 35,000 | option | ||||||||
| ESB-9 | NASSCO | San Diego CA | 785 | 35,000 | planned | ||||||||||
| ESB-10 | NASSCO | San Diego CA | 785 | 35,000 | planned | ||||||||||