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The US Navy currently has 19 ships in the Middle East, including two aircraft carriers, and seven ships in the Indian Ocean. The US military began enforcing a blockade of Iranian ports using the bulk of that force on April 13 and has diverted at least 33 ships since Thursday.
US forces have also sent three ships, including two to the Indian Ocean, roughly 2,000 miles from the Persian Gulf. The most recent was on Wednesday night, when US forces boarded a "sanctioned stateless vessel" carrying oil from Iran in the Indian Ocean, the Department of Defense said.
As of last Monday, there were 15 ships in the area of responsibility of US Central Command, which is tasked with managing US military operations in the Middle East.
The 19 ships currently in the area are:
carriers
USS Abraham Lincoln
The USS Gerald R. Ford, a spaceship on board, which is made up of spacecraft.
Destroyers
USS Bainbridge
USS Thomas Hudner
USS Frank E. Petersen Jr.
USS Delbert D Black
USS Michael Murphy
USS Mitscher
USS Rafael Peralta
USS Spruance
USS Milius
USS Churchill
USS Truxton
USS Mahan
Littoral Combat Ship
USS Canberra
USS Tulsa
Amphibious Ready Group
USS Tripoli (Amphibious assault ship)
USS New Orleans (Amphibious transport dock)
USS Rushmore (dock landing ship)
In addition, USS John Finn, USS Pinckney, USS Higgins, USS Mustin, USS McFaul, USS John L. Canley and USS Santa Barbara are all operating in the Indian Ocean.
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