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A Navy guided-missile destroyer is operating in the Black Sea after entering the region earlier on Tuesday. USS Donald Cook (DDG-75) is scheduled to...
Germany's World War II U-boat offensive in the Caribbean managed to jeopardize the Allies' oil supply before falling victim to high-command bickering and superior technology and...
A lean budget and distrust of new technology combined to help precipitate a naval tragedy at Honda Point, California. On an early fall night in 1923, the U.S. Navy lost more warships in ten minutes than it did to enemy action in...
In a stranger-than-fiction Pacific war encounter, Navy Lieutenant William A. Read Jr. successfully fended off a bayonet-wielding Japanese officer by using the only readily available 'weapons.'
This issue of Naval History focuses on a tried-and-true war-at-sea topic-battleships. But instead of studying the behemoths' exploits in combat, our package examines the often-overlooked evolutionary period when the U.S. Navy's...
Germany's World War II U-boat offensive in the Caribbean managed to jeopardize the Allies' oil supply before falling victim to high-command bickering and superior technology and resources.
The discovery of the wreckage of a U.S. Navy patrol craft that lost a heroic but lopsided duel with a U-boat offers a chance to further understand the World War II fighting that raged just off America's shores.
More than nine years after the Constitution gave a pursuing Royal Navy squadron the slip, the episode came back to haunt the commanding British officer, with fatal results.
With morale on board his nuclear-powered submarine way down, the skipper of the Finback came up with a novel-but risque-solution. The ten minutes of gyrating that followed has gone down in modern U.S. Navy infamy.
For the men who served on board the U.S. Navy's battleships in the 1910s, life at sea often meant backbreaking work shoveling coal or manning the guns, little chance for liberty, and a night's sleep in a hammock instead of a bunk...
Navy Lieutenant Don Walsh, a Naval Academy classmate once observed, "had adapted himself readily to Navy life." This sometimes included battling just to stay in your bunk, a...
The only surviving Union Jack from the Battle of Trafalgar was sold at auction in late October for a world-record sum of $638,102, nearly 40 times its estimated auction price. The huge 11-foot-by-7-foot flag-...
Newport, Rhode Island, is arguably the capital city of American yachting. The glory days of the America's Cup were sailed here, and every summer its harbor fills with sailboats of all sizes.