The smallest active duty vessel in the USN?

[Grey Havoc]

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/a33766522/tiny-boat-smallest-ship-us-navy/

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/ifa0ns

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[Archibald]

*future command of the guy who set LHA Bonhomme Richard aflame last july*

 

[Archibald]

"Honey ! I shrunk the Nimitz !"

It looks like a floating phone booth. Phone booths... how we miss you. Or not.

Note there is enough space at the rear for a quadcopter landing pad. Smallest carrier, ever ?

 

[JohnR]

What is it meant to assist, a row boat?

 

[TomS]

What is it meant to assist, a row boat?

They are boom handling boats to move the floating security booms/nets at ports.

 

[Arjen]

That dinky looking wheelhouse means its skipper can do the job in rotten weather.