The historic battleship USS Texas (BB-35), a veteran of both World Wars, is undergoing a massive $75 million restoration in ...

The next year, EPA exempted Sinkex from federal toxic pollution laws, and the Navy resumed sinking old ships — at least 50 nautical miles from shore and at least 6,000 feet deep.

Might Mo survived the downsizing of the Navy's fleet in the late 1940s, remaining in active service as the only commissioned battleship from 1947 to 1950 at the order of President Harry S. Truman.

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 ...

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 ...

Summary and Key Points: This summer, the U.S. Navy conducted SINKEX drills, where three decommissioned warships were sunk during live-fire exercises, including the USS Dubuque and USS Tarawa ...

The stern of the Navy’s century-old model of the battleship USS South Carolina, which was moved in its case at the Washington Navy Yard in December as the Navy prepares for a new national museum ...

The Secretary of the Navy not only has the power to name new ships, but he or she can also rename existing ships when their old names don’t work out, according to an independent commission that ...