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

Operation Ten Go, the final attempt of the Imperial Japanese Navy to affect the outcome of the Pacific War, is well known for ...

Aircraft Carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68) made its first port call since departing its Indo-Pacific deployment, arriving in Guam ...

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

USS Laffey was attacked at the Battle of Okinawa. Now the ship gets new exhibits and actors to recreate life aboard 'The Ship ...

The transfer of two American patrol boats to Tunisia and a Navy command ship’s visit embody a centuries-old U.S. commitment ...

While their legacy endures, the Iowa-class represents a bygone era of warfare, ill-suited for today’s high-tech, unmanned, ...

The Division 8E and 8W past district officers of the Louisiana-Mississippi-W. Tennessee District of Kiwanis International met April 2 at Drusilla Seafood Restaurant.

The Navy wants a Louisiana shipyard to build the first hull for the Landing Ship Medium program as part of a plan to find an ...

To make matters worse, a thorough investigation of the incident placed blame for the collision on the submarine’s ...

USS Missouri and the Iowa-class battleships were larger and more lethal than their predecessors. When it comes to legendary ...

There's a "USS" in the name of every commissioned ship in the United States Navy. But other designations are more obscure.