The versatile ship served as the flagship for the Pacific Fleet from 1921 to 1940. The San Pedro-based portion of the fleet, ...

During World War II, U.S. Navy cruisers filled a vital niche between the powerful but slow battleships and the less powerful ...

USS stands for United States Ship, and is used for Navy ships that are currently in active service. The designation has been ...

A Japanese torpedo slammed into the USS New Orleans in 1942, tearing off nearly one-third of the ship and killing over 180 crew members.

Key Points – The USS Long Beach (CGN-9), commissioned in 1961, was the US Navy’s first nuclear-powered surface warship and the world’s first nuclear-powered cruiser. -Its two reactors gave ...

The George Washington Carrier Strike Group wrapped up a port visit to Manila and sailed into the South China Sea on Monday.

The U.S. Navy’s oldest aircraft carrier is transiting the Strait of Malacca, as Iran and Israel continue to exchange missile fire. USS Nimitz (CVN-68) sailed west through the Singapore Strait ...

Following repairs from a brutal Kamikaze attack, the Portland-class cruiser USS Indianapolis was selected for a top-secret mission - to transport mysterious, heavily guarded containers to Tinian ...

Editorial: Our community holds its breath as USS Ford Strike Group departs Loved ones wave as the USS Gerald R. Ford deploys from Naval Station Norfolk on Tuesday. (Kendall Warner / The Virginian ...

With USS Nimitz deployment, the US surges air and sea assets to the Middle East The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz is headed to the Middle East to join a second carrier in the region, USS Carl Vinson.

The US has ordered a second aircraft carrier group, the USS Nimitz, to head to the Middle East as tensions ramp up over the Iran-Israel conflict. The Nimitz, the oldest of America’s nuclear ...

By studying chipmunk and vole specimens hidden away in the backroom drawers of Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History, a research team—lead by assistant curator of mammals Anderson Feijó ...