On July 6, 1971, HMS Cavalier and HMS Rapid, two veterans of the Royal Navy, met off Scotland's Firth of Forth for a historic showdown. That morning, both ships set off in a 64-mile-long race. The air ...

(Navy History) The destroyer escort smashed into the U-boat ... To this day, Buckley holds the distinction of being the only U.S. Navy ship in World War II, and since, to ram an enemy vessel and ...

Paul R. Ignatius, a management consultant who served as secretary of the Navy at the height of the Vietnam War and spent two ...

The destroyer fighting ship (not to be confused with the cruiser) is the workhorse of the modern U.S. Navy. The 75 destroyers in active service — which are mostly Arleigh Burke-class ships — are able ...

The U.S. Navy's use of pigeons began decades before World War II, but the birds found their most critical mission during the war—flying messages from submarine-hunting blimps during a time when radio ...

The U.S. Navy reached a major milestone in an effort to modernize its Arleigh Burke class of guided-missile destroyers when the USS Ted Stevens (DDG-128) completed builder's sea trials in late ...