The Blue Ridge Class Amphibious Command ships provide the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps with command and control for fleet commanders. Commissioned in 1971, these are the only ships to be designed ...

Two Blue Ridge vessels were completed. The first was the USS Blue Ridge, commissioned in late 1970 after being built in the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. The second was the USS Mount Whitney ...

For eight days and nine nights, those aboard braved rough seas and unpredictable weather for the chance of freedom from a ...