Palos Verdes homes owners will be celebrating LA Fleet Week May 22 through May 25, 2026, with the arrival of large navy ships which will be visiting the Port of Los Angeles. The list of this year’s visiting ships are the USS Essex, USCGC Halibut and US Coast Guard Fast Response Cutter Terrell Horne. This is a great opportunity for us to tour these active duty ships for a one of a kind visit. The ship tour tickets will allow admission to one ship only at a specific designated time between 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. The tickets are limited and registration fills up quickly. All tour guests must be pre-registered for ship tours. They are not available on site during the events. To sign up for tickets go to https://www.lafleetweek.com
In addition to the tours, there will be outside entertainment offered starting on Friday, May 22, 2026, from 10:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. A schedule of events will be posted every day at http://www.lafleetweek.com and will include musical entertainment as well as other types of individual acts. There will be a variety of food trucks on site. In addition to the stage entertainment, there will be land-side exhibits, military demonstrations, military aircraft flyovers and more.
The music entertainment list is as follows: (5-22 Friday) Destroyers 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. (5-23 Saturday) Changels/Adopt the Arts 1:30 – 2:00 p.m., Destroyers 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. (5-24 Sunday) Satin Dolz 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. For more information go to the website and to get the entertainment schedules and updated ship list at www.lafleetweek.com.
LA Fleet Week is a patriotic tradition of the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard that brings recently deployed military ships into major port cities for a week.
To read my last article on visiting ships at the Port of Los Angeles click here.
Photo courtesy of LA Fleet Week
