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Having earned command of the sloop-of-war Peacock, Captain Warrington put to sea in March 1814. A month later, while ...

On 31 October 1803, the USS Philadelphia came under fire by Tripolitan gunboats. She had been on a blockading mission ...

James Jonas Madison had been a merchant mariner for most of his life, having first gone to sea in his ...

In many ways the Princeton was emblematic of the age. Despite her wood-burning boilers belowdecks, she was crowned by a ...

It is understandable why William S. Sims was seen by many in his day as a troublemaker. As a lieutenant ...

On a dark night in 1971, the aircraft carrier USS Independence (CV-62) was operating independently in Caribbean waters on a ...

On the night of 27 August 1972, four U.S. ships—the USS Newport News (CA-148), Providence (CLG-6), Robison (DDG-12), and Rowan ...

Our rundown of the previous year’s 20 top books of note for Sea Service professionals covers the literary waterfront.

It is in the natural order of things that we commemorate the combat sacrifices of our armed forces. But it ...

In fact, a desperate measure was under way. At a little past midnight, two American whaleboats had departed the southern ...