The Stockton Maritime Museum took ownership of the USS Lucid in 2010, where it started undergoing intensive renovations to ...

USS Truxtun just returned from a seven-month deployment in October. She was named after Commodore Thomas Truxtun, one of the Navy’s first six captains; she is now the sixth ship to bear the name. This ...

The winter maintenance period lasts into March and allows crews from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to perform needed ...

Lashed to the bow of the USS Olympia, the Unknown Soldier and his detachment of Marines battled a storm that threatened to ...

On April 10, 1963, USS Thresher was conducting deep-dive trials east of Cape Cod. At test depth, a silver-brazed water pipe ruptured in the engine room, spraying seawater at extreme pressure. The leak ...

In late December 2025, the U.S. Navy announced plans to pursue a new class of large surface combatants described as Trump-class battleships, marking the first time in decades the service has publicly ...

President Donald Trump scrambled Navy ship-naming traditions last week with his announcement of a new “Trump-class” battleship, to be called the USS Defiant, featuring nuclear-tipped missiles and ...

The Navy has suffered significant losses from 13 fires on ships undergoing maintenance since 2008. The Navy investigated these fires, including one on board the USS Bonhomme Richard in 2020. Based on ...

Cameraman Norman Alley was napping on the gunboat's deck when Japanese bombs started falling around him. The Universal News cameraman grabbed his camera and began filming as explosions ripped through ...

"This young whale stole our hearts in late July, spending over an hour flipper slapping, rolling near the boat, and breaching ...

BREMERTON — The rain poured and the wind howled as dozens of loved ones of sailors onboard the USS Nimitz stood on the pier under a pavilion. Their clothes drenched as the rain blew in sideways, many ...