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 ...

U.S. Sailors man the rails aboard Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) as it transits Puget Sound while returning to Naval Base Kitsap, Washington, Dec. 16, 2025. However, the arrival of ...

Dec. 17 (UPI) --The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz docked at Naval Base Kitsap on Tuesday after completing a 270-day deployment that likely was its last before being retired. Thousands gathered at thel ...

Sailors from the USS Nimitz embrace their family after returning to Naval Base Kitsap, Washington, on Tuesday from a nine-month deployment. (MCS2 Peter K. McHaddad/U.S. Navy) The USS Nimitz aircraft ...

The famed aircraft carrier USS Nimitz, which is only days away from wrapping up 50 years of service, will stop in its former homeport of San Diego as it travels north to Bremerton, Wash., the Navy ...

Oakland Police Department’s change in leadership took effect Saturday. Assistant Chief James Beere begins as interim chief after former police chief Floyd Mitchell stepped down. In Oakland, people ...

More than 100 sailors were sleeping a few dozen yards from the point of impact where a merchant vessel slammed into the steel sides of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman on Feb. 12. Another ...

SAN DIEGO — Ensign Marybeth Salas, a native of Harker Heights, serves aboard USS Oakland, a U.S. Navy warship operating out of San Diego, California. Salas graduated from Quantico Middle High School ...

The USS Nimitz arrived in Hawaii on Saturday, returning to American waters for the first time since the aircraft carrier deployed from its homeport at Naval Base Kitsap, Wash., in March. As it arrived ...

Sailors man the rails as the USS Abraham Lincoln passes North Island in January 2022. (File photo courtesy of the Navy) The USS Abraham Lincoln quietly departed from San Diego last week with the Navy ...

U.S. Navy Capt. Vince Libasci during USS Arlington change-of-command ceremony (U.S. Navy photo by Seaman Bret Whorton) Arlington’s namesake U.S. Navy ship has a new commanding officer. Navy Capt.

There was no tradition of saving retired warships throughout the 18th or early 19th centuries. That changed due to a movement not in the United States, but in the United Kingdom. By the early 1830s, ...