Launched in 1982, the USNS Zeus is the first and only cable-laying ship in the US Navy. Her primary mission is to support an underwater sound surveillance system along with various subsurface geophysical surveys in the Atlantic.

Although a military ship, she is unarmed, carries a mostly civilian crew, and has no home port. She’s shown here on the York River near the confluence of King Creek (foreground) at the Yorktown Naval Weapons Station.