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

On the eve of the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Okinawa, the USS Laffey museum ship at Patriots Point was honored and a ...

The Nimitz and its escorts — the guided-missile destroyers USS Gridley and USS Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee — pulled into Apra ...

USS Minneapolis spearheaded Task Force 67 into Ironbottom Sound to intercept a Japanese convoy en route to Guadalcanal. As the Battle of Tassafaronga erupted, her powerful guns sank one enemy vessel ...

What is the oldest operational U.S. military vessel in service today? If your answer is the USS Constitution, you’d be wrong!

ATLANTIC OCEAN — Quartermaster 3rd Class Shamari Roberts from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, assigned to the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7), checks the ship’s bearing during a sea ...

Who that will be, though, is anyone's guess. One of the players who was most commonly linked to trades all winter was 25-year-old first baseman Triston Casas. Mired in a 1-for-16 start for the ...

A Wisconsin man who was rescued from a cruise ship following a medical emergency ... when he experienced multiple strokes. The 72-year-old shares his story for the first time in an ABC News ...

The 72-year-old shares his story for the first time in an ABC News interview. The medical staff on the Holland America ship ultimately called in the Coast Guard to airlift Tomensky off the boat. The U ...

(AP Photo/Michael Casey) CORRECTS DATE - In this image taken from security camera video, Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old doctoral student at Tufts University, is detained by Department of Homeland ...

New England Revolution newcomers Tanner Beason, Alex Bono, and Jackson Yueill visit Old Ironsides ... learn about the ship’s rich history. New England Revolution players Tanner Beason, Alex Bono, and ...

Houthi militants in Yemen are claiming responsibility for a new attack against US warships in the Red Sea. The terror group claimed in a statement published by the ...