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 ...