HMS Glorious and her two escorts, HMS Ardent and HMS Acasta, who lost their lives when sunk by German battleships.

After Military.com's reporting, CBS confirmed the defense secretary's plans to rename seven other naval ships who honor civic ...

Iowa, New Jersey, Missouri, and Wisconsin—were the US Navy’s largest and last battleships, designed in the late 1930s with ...

Reactivating or building new Iowa-class battleships for the US Navy is an impractical notion. These World War II-era giants, ...

These battleships were among the finest ever engineered—and are rightly sources of great national pride from an otherwise ...

Summary and Key Points: During the Korean War, the U.S. Navy outfitted Iowa-class battleships with nuclear capabilities through Operation Katie, enabling them to fire Mark 23 “Katie” nuclear ...

One vessel was renamed the USS Robert Smalls after a former slave who aided the Union in the Civil War, and the other was ...

Harvey Milk was gay. We all know that. But today, gay sailors serve openly and with a great deal of pride in the U.S. military,” said retired Adm. James Stavridis.

Germany's pocket battleships didn't weigh more than the Treaty of Versailles stipulated its battleships could weigh, but they ...

Several Navy ships named after civil rights leaders may be renamed by Pete Hegseth in his push for "reestablishing the warrior culture" of the military.

A new name for the Harvey Milk was not given but, according to the memo, Hegseth and Phelan are planning to announce the new ...