The initialism was originally a bit of shipbuilder marketing—and now there are many different kinds of ship designations.

The U.S. Navy was formed by the Continental Congress in October 1775, and its first ship was named the Alfred after the ninth-century Saxon king. Other early vessels were named for important ...

It would be the U.S. Navy’s biggest defeat until World War II and threatened to change the balance of power in American ...

KARACHI: Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Naveed Ashraf visited foreign ships of navies participating in 9th Multinational Naval Exercise AMAN-25. Upon his arrival onboard foreign visiting ships ...

France’s FREMM frigate FS Normandie is pictured during a NATO exercise in 2021. For NATO navies like the French Navy, more at-sea presence enabled by improved ship availability is central to building ...

The current and future size and composition of the Navy, the annual rate of Navy ship procurement, the prospective affordability of the Navy’s shipbuilding plans, the capacity of the U.S ...

Naval Academy seniors, otherwise known as midshipmen first class, or “firsties,” drafted their homeport and the ship they’ll serve on this spring. After graduation, they are commissioned as ...

Philippine Navy spokesperson for the West Philippine Sea, Rear Adm. Roy Vincent Trinidad, said the ships were last spotted about 120 nautical miles from Basilan. “As a quick update on the tracking of ...

The Northern Pioneer, the world's first commercial liquefied CO2 transport ship, has arrived to Stavanger ... experience from his time in the Navy and both HII shipyards to his new role ...

This vessel lay at tha Brooklyn Navy Yard a useless hulk ... large, and swift propeller line of battle ships, we have not a propeller-frigate worth the name. We would adv'se our government ...

The U.S. and Philippines flew a joint patrol over the contested Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea guarded by Beijing's ...