The leaders of a Marine light armored reconnaissance unit think the Corps should adopt the M10 Booker now that the Army doesn ...

Their official designation was Landing Craft Vehicle and Personnel, or LCVP. Usually, they were just called Landing Craft. Sometimes they were called Higgins boats after their creator. By any name, ...

Pacific Northwest boatbuilder Silverback Marine has added to its lineup of electric powered workboats with the launch of a new 24- by 8.5-foot landing craft.Powered by twin Photon 300 electric ...

In video obtained by the outlet, waves can be seen washing over two ACVs close to shore as recovery craft maneuver nearby. An earlier Marine Corps statement also released Wednesday said that one ...

The one craft used exclusively by the Marine Corps is the large landing craft on an air cushion. It only takes a crew of five to operate but can carry between 60 and 75 tons of personnel and ...

The Marine Corps lifted a freeze on water-based training for its new landing craft a week after two of its vehicles became disabled in the surf off the California coast. On July 19, two Amphibious ...

Bethel-based contracting company Jobs Done Right, which was operating the landing craft, then brought in Homer-based Kachemak Marine to help salvage it. They sent a 20-by-45-foot barge upriver to ...

Vigor Marine Group announced that it has organized Vigor, Continental Marine of San Diego, MHI Ship Repair & Services, ...

The second wave brought six Japanese amphibious assault vehicles ashore, followed by a Japanese air-cushioned landing craft in the third wave. Two Marine AH-1Z Viper helicopters circled overhead ...

The Higgins landing craft is nearly two-thirds exposed. It is beached less than a mile from Lake Mead Marina and Hemenway Harbor. The boat was used to survey the Colorado River decades ago ...