Once the pride of the U.S. Navy, its four battleships are now mothballed museum attractions. But if needed, could these ...

The iconic Iowa-class battleships came closer to being nuclear-armed platforms than many realize. During the Cold War, the US ...

EVEN as it is studying the possible transfer of six Japanese Abukuma-class destroyers that will soon be decommissioned, the ...

Newshounds sniffing around the Norfolk (Va.) Navy Yard last week reported that the old (1911), 26,000-ton battleship Wyoming was being furbished up with new guns and armor, would be returned to ...

Old blueprints and other specifications for the ships (if they still exist) would have to be produced from Navy archives, and the parts made quickly. Historical // Getty Images Sixteen-inch shells ...

An old-fashioned battleship is a ship to be seen—and in a big way. But there’s no need for the Navy to build an old-fashioned battleship in the twenty-first century when it can build a new ...

See This Old Photo? Check Out One of the Last Battleships Ever Built. Displacing 44,500 tons (standard) and capable of thirty knots, Vanguard was the largest battleship ever built by the Royal Navy.

The Navy intends to use some of the funds to increase its fleet of warships by 19 and modernize century-old shipyards.

A US Navy battleship that is over 100 years old and saw action in two world wars is on the move for the first time in more than three decades to undergo much-needed repairs.