The USS New Jersey, an Iowa-class battleship, served in World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Lebanon, and the Persian Gulf. It's now ...

The USS Kidd is expected to return to Baton Rouge by Spring 2026. In a release, officials said that the USS Kidd historic ...

In November 1942, thirteen American ships, none larger than a heavy cruiser, knifed through the dark, restless Pacific. They steamed headlong into the jaws of a massive Japanese task force boasting at ...

The first USS Utah was lost in the attack on Pearl Harbor, and no other ship was named for the Copper State until Saturday’s ...

The U.S. Navy did not finish construction of the USS Illinois battleship because aircraft carriers became the dominant naval combat force in WWII.

Scientists and explorers have found the severed bow of a damaged World War II warship. A team aboard the Exploration Vessel Nautilus found the USS New Orleans 675 meters deep in the Solomon Islands' ...

On Nov. 30, 1942, the USS New Orleans was in the middle of a pitched battle off of Guadalcanal. A Japanese torpedo scored a direct hit on the bow of the U.S. Navy cruiser. The blast ignited the ship’s ...