It was the worst stateside disaster in World War II, according to the Navy. The White sailors were granted leave after the explosion, but Black sailors were ordered back to work loading ammunition ...

During World War II ... a Navy gunboat sent a discouraged update to Coast Guard headquarters: “Considering all factors it is our opinion chances yawl still afloat remote.” The United States ...

The Port Chicago 50, a group of Black sailors charged and convicted in the largest U.S. Navy mutiny in history ... It was the worst home-front disaster of World War II. When Sheppard and other ...

Two new aircraft carriers are being named after Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, continuing the Navy convention of naming ...

At the Wisconsin Maritime Museum in Manitowoc, you can descend a steep staircase into the USS Cobia, a US Navy submarine that sank 13 ships and earned four battle stars in World War II.

The Navy plans on naming its fourth Ford-class aircraft carrier after World War II hero Doris 'Dorie' Miller, an African-American sailor recognized for his heroism during the 1941 attack on Pearl ...

In 1982, members from the US Navy's Task Group 22.3 reunited with members of the German submarine's crew in Chicago, marking the first time the German sailors saw the U-boat since the war.

The US Navy has announced that about a dozen sailors are to be disciplined after seven crew on the USS Fitzgerald were killed in a collision. The destroyer collided with a Philippines container ...

click image for close-up This portrait of an unidentified Revolutionary War ... navy and in the colonies' state navies, as well as on merchant vessels in the North and the South. This sailor's ...