The Navy’s newest berthing barge, APL-67, sailed from VT Halter Marine’s Mississippi shipyard this week en route to Naval Base San Diego for its eventual delivery to Yokosuka, Japan.

Old barges Navy berthing barge APL 70 under construction on Aug. 5, 2022. USNI News Photo. A ship in a maintenance availability becomes an industrial work zone.

The U.S. Navy's newest auxiliary personnel lighter, a floating berthing vessel, left its Pascagoula, Miss., construction shipyard this week after completion, the branch said on Wednesday.

YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — The Navy’s newest berthing barge arrived recently at the home of the U.S. 7th Fleet to ease a shortage of living space for sailors whose ships are undergoing long ...

These Auxiliary Personnel Lighter-Small berthing barges are a new design and the first new navy berthing barge design since the 1950s. Sailors who have seen the new APL-67s report that in addition to ...

The U.S. Navy has taken delivery of a brick-shaped vessel known as a berthing barge. Berthing barges are designed to house sailors when their ships are laid up. The ship, which looks like Noah’s ...

"Since moving the crew to the berthing barge more than a year ago, the Commanding Officer has assigned a senior officer to oversee and ensure living conditions are maintained within Navy standards.

The 13 Billion Dollar "Berthing Barge" USS Gerald R. Ford, sitting in a shipyard. ASSOCIATED PRESS. In a normally quiet House Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness hearing yesterday, a prepared ...

Micro Mart, berthing barge added at Norfolk Naval Shipyard. Improvements come in wake of recent rash of suicides where quality of life was cited as a cause.

The barge is one of the newest auxiliary personnel barges in service by the Navy, delivered in 1998. Thirteen of 17 barges in use now by the Navy were constructed between 1944 and 1946.