The U.S. Navy was formed by the Continental Congress in October 1775, and its first ship was named the Alfred after the ninth-century Saxon king. Other early vessels were named for important ...

Brandon Weichert’s essay “The Era of Large US Navy Warships is all Done Now” applies equally well—if not better—to China. In fact, it is China that has arguably invested in a “useless ...

The US Navy is the most powerful group of ships, carriers, and sailors on Earth. The Navy is older than the US — founded in 1775 as the Continental Navy — and is currently made up of 430 ships ...

US 7th Fleet flagship USS Blue Ridge in the Philippine Sea, May 2, 2020. US Navy/MCS Seaman Sarah Eaton Blue Ridge-class amphibious command ships arrived at an important time during the Cold War.

On April 30, 1975, the Vietnam War officially ended. U.S. Navy ships involved in evacuating Americans and Vietnamese were steaming away from Vietnam — except one.

We compiled data on all ships and submarines — 25 in total — that have been commissioned in the service of the U.S. Navy for 35 years or more and ranked them by age.

US Navy Photo The namesake of the Navy’s Independence-class of Littoral Combat Ships left the fleet after 11 years in a small pier-side ceremony in San Diego on Thursday, according to the service.

In this photo provided by U.S. Navy, the United States and Vietnam national ensigns are raised in unison on the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan in Da Nang, Vietnam, for a port visit, Sunday, June ...

The U.S. Navy was formed by the Continental Congress in October 1775, and its first ship was named the Alfred after the ninth-century Saxon king. Other early vessels were named for important ...