A U.S. Navy ship named for Connecticut Medal of Honor recipient Harvey C. Barnum Jr is to be commissioned in April.

The Navy's weeklong 250th anniversary celebration kicked off Thursday with a procession of ships on the Delaware River and aircraft flyovers. Four Navy ships, two Coast Guard cutters and four Naval ...

The last U.S. Navy cruiser based in Japan will soon depart for the United States, closing out a decadelong deployment with the U.S. 7th Fleet. The guided-missile cruiser USS Robert Smalls, formerly ...

The sinking of an Iranian warship by a US Navy submarine off the coast of Sri Lanka this week is something a US sub hasn’t done in more than 80 years and is another indication that Washington’s war ...

The Kanawha River, which flows from Gauley Bridge, Fayette County, West Virginia, through Charleston, West Virginia, to Point Pleasant, Mason County, West Virginia, has been the inspiration for the ...

President Donald Trump has said he might order the U.S. Navy to escort commercial oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, if needed, to help deal with the escalating world oil supply crisis. Iran ...

The Strait of Hormuz has been effectively closed to shipping because of the war against Iran by the U.S. and Israel.

Names for Navy ships traditionally have been chosen and announced by the Secretary of the Navy, under the direction of the President and in accordance with rules prescribed by Congress. Rules for ...

A warship built around its own invulnerability usually becomes the fleet’s most vulnerable concept. The appeal of a giant surface combatant wrapped in powerful lasers is easy to understand. Navy ...