The USS Lake Champlain, which has been homeported in San Diego for decades, is home from what is most likely its final mission.

The Navy decommissioned another aging Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser, with a ceremony Friday honoring the USS Lake Champlain for more than 35 years of service.

It's not too often that a sailor takes to sea on a ship's first voyage, and then attends its retirement. Tracey Moore remembers the 1988 maiden voyage aboard the USS Lake Champlain, a missile ...

The Navy decommissioned guided-missile cruiser Lake Champlain Sept. 1 at Naval Base San Diego, marking more than 35 years of service. The ship, which was originally commissioned in 1988, supported ...

The USS Lake Champlain is the second naval vessel to visit Kodiak this month during this year’s Northern Edge military training exercise.