Tom Norton is Newsweek's Fact Check reporter ... Houthi rebels claimed this week to have targeted a U.S. Navy destroyer in the Red Sea, the latest in a series of attacks the Yemeni group has ...

steamed the destroyer Bearss and the oiler Salamonie ... 47 (Annapolis ’32), aboard the Tarawa. By pushing Norton Sound at 95% of full power, even through the iceberg-menaced waters around ...

Norton was speaking Aug. 22 to an audience ... of a skirmish between North Vietnamese torpedo boats and an American destroyer. "I hadn't really thought very much about the war," Norton said.

The tragedy that would become associated with Norton's command took place Oct. 23, 1969, as the destroyer, not far from the coast of England, was heading home to Halifax after maneuvers with ...

Seel, a Norton native, enlisted in the Navy in 1951 and served aboard the USS Hobson, a destroyer-mine sweeper. Within a year, the Hobson collided with the aircraft carrier Wasp in the mid-Atlantic.