Photo By Petty Officer 2nd Class Conner Foy | 200827-N-AO868-1065 MEDITERRANEAN SEA (Aug. 27, 2020) Sailors aboard Combatant Craft...... read more read more
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The Expeditionary Sea Base USS Hershel "Woody" Williams (ESB 4) conducts maritime operations off the coast of Somalia in support Operation Octave Quartz. The OOQ mission is to reposition U.S. DOD personnel from Somalia to other locations in East Africa.
The Expeditionary Sea Base ship class is highly flexible that may be used across a broad range of military operations supporting multiple operational phases, similar to the Expeditionary Transfer Dock class. Acting as a mobile sea base, they are part of the critical access infrastructure that supports the deployment of forces and supplies to provide prepositioned equipment and sustainment with flexible distribution.
The ships were originally called the Mobile Landing Platform and the MLP Afloat Forward Staging Base, respectively. In September 2015, the Secretary of the Navy re-designated these hulls to conform to traditional three-letter ship designations. The design of these ships is based on the Alaska class crude oil carrier, which was built by General Dynamics National Steel and Shipbuilding Company. Leveraging commercial designs ensures design stability and lower development costs.
The USS Hershel “Woody” Williams is optimized to support a variety of maritime based missions, including Special Operations Forces and Airborne Mine Counter Measures. The ESBs, which include a four-spot flight deck, mission deck and hangar, are designed around four core capabilities: aviation facilities, berthing, equipment staging support, and command and control assets.
General Characteristics, Expeditionary Sea Base (ESB)
Builder: NASSCO
Propulsion: Commercial Diesel Electric Propulsion
Length: 239.3 Meters (785 feet)
Beam: 50 Meters (164 feet)
Displacement: 90,000 tons (fully loaded)
Draft: 10.5 Meters (fully loaded); 12 Meters (load line)
Speed: 15 knots
Range: 9,500 nautical miles
Crew: 44 Military Sealift Command personnel
Military Crew: 101 military (Accommodations for 250)
| Date Taken: | 12.17.2020 |
| Date Posted: | 12.17.2020 17:02 |
| Story ID: | 385258 |
| Location: | SO |
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