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 ...

For most of the 20th century, virtually every naval ship had asbestos aboard in some capacity. Now, the U.S. Navy is the military branch believed to have the highest rate of mesothelioma, a cancer ...

The Navy's new amphibious transport dock ship will honor a fallen Marine, while two surveillance ships pay tribute to deep sea explorers. By Nicholas Slayton Posted on Jan 13, 2025 The Navy ...

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Navy said Monday, February 3, that it had “warned off and issued consecutive radio challenges” to three Chinese Navy ships that were stpotted in an area ...

Names for Navy ships traditionally have been chosen and announced by the Secretary of the Navy, under the direction of the President and in accordance with rules prescribed by Congress.

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 ...

Known as Enterprise Remote Monitoring Version 4 (ERM v4), the system is the shipboard aspect of a Pentagon program called Condition Based Maintenance Plus, which in part aims to leverage machine ...

On Tuesday, Jan. 28, students at Western High School in Anaheim got some sense of what they could experience in the Navy ...

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 ...

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 ...

An Italian navy ship Saturday took back to Italy the 43 migrants from the asylum processing centers in Albania following a court decision in Rome in the third failed attempt by Giorgia Meloni’s ...