Conceived in the late 1930s and built during World War II, these ships were designed to be the fastest and most powerful battleships ever constructed by the United States Navy. The class consists ...

The Mothball Fleet makes up a large number of vessels in the United States Navy and is scattered in harbors and bays all ...

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The United States Navy has used the same standards to assign names and hull numbers to its vessels for more than a century.

Military Sealift Command’s newest fleet replenishment oiler, USNS Sojourner Truth (T-AO 210), was christened during a ...

The U.S. Navy tests its under-construction ships over and over, probing for weaknesses in everything from design to ...

A hard turn by an aircraft carrier isn’t enough on its own to cause a $67 million Navy fighter jet to slide off a ship, a ...