American naval ships use USS before the ship's name, but with British ships it's HMS. There's a reason, and a lot of history, ...

Wilfred "Jasper" Holmes, a U.S. Naval officer, personally sent expensive scotch to any U.S. skipper who sank a ship of the Kido Butai.

While stationed in Keflavik, Iceland, a lot of Lt. David Pingenot's off-duty time involved sound — the sound of rock and roll ...

On April 8, 2009, the US-flagged cargo ship Maersk Alabama was hijacked while it was passing along the coast of Somalia. The ...

The new policy aims to revitalize a U.S. shipbuilding industry that has fallen well behind production levels of its rivals ...

The Nimitz and its escorts — the guided-missile destroyers USS Gridley and USS Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee — pulled into Apra ...

In the same respect, whenever a ship is decommissioned for one reason or another — retired, sold, or destroyed — it is stricken from the Naval Vessel Register. In other words, it's removed.

(Naval History and Heritage Command ... than his prewar task of keeping track of the positions of noncombatant ships at sea in the Eastern Pacific, according to the U.S. Naval Institute.