Providence native Jarek Marte’s life-changing enlistment led him to serve aboard USS Iwo Jima as a Navy weapons specialist.

There, his manager, a Navy veteran, filled his head with sea ... commemorated the 160th anniversary of the end of the Civil War. The Rhode Island Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal ...

had served in the Confederate Navy. After graduating from the Naval Academy and being commissioned an ensign, Carter served on the USS Wyoming — a battleship-turned-experimental gunnery ship.

A commissioning ceremony will be held at a Connecticut shipyard as the first submarine to bear the USS Iowa name becomes an ...

The submarine named for the state of Iowa will officially be accepted into service in the U.S. Navy at 9 a.m. CT April ... to transport troops in the Civil War. The battleship USS Iowa BB-4 ...