WASHINGTON – The Navy's USS Bonhomme Richard burned for the third ... The amphibious assault ship, essentially a small aircraft carrier, has been heavily damaged by the fire that broke out ...

The Navy sent two destroyers, the USS Fitzgerald and USS Russell ... it’s really a small aircraft carrier," Harrison said. The Bonhomme Richard was commissioned in 1998. Its full crew is ...

The U.S. Navy has announced the USS Bonhomme Richard ... At any one time, U.S. shipbuilders are building at least one aircraft carrier and one large amphibious assault ship each, as well as ...

The inferno that engulfed the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard isn’t the ... as a “minor” fire aboard the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) at Newport News Shipbuilding ...

The aircraft carrier USS Bon Homme Richard became the second Naval ship to honor John Paul Jones’s famous Revolutionary War frigate when introduced during the Second World War. The Essex-class ...

Once in San Diego, Bonhomme Richard is scheduled for similar flight deck upgrades to accommodate F-35B aircraft, according to the Navy news release. Aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75 ...

In the past month, far too many have sought to minimize safety culture, claiming that the USS Bonhomme Richard conflagration ... endangered the nuclear aircraft carrier USS George Washington ...

U.S. Navy flight deck personnel taxi an AV-8B Harrier assigned to Marine Attack Squadron 542 across the flight deck aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard in 2012. Should ...

When the amphibious assault ship Bonhomme Richard caught fire last summer ... the amphibious assault ship Iwo Jima and the aircraft carrier George Washington. Despite reforms implemented after ...

Here are 10 key facts about the tenth aircraft carrier to serve in the United States Navy. She was originally supposed to have been named USS Bon Homme Richard, but she was renamed USS Yorktown ...

The USS Bennington (CVS-20 ... Reclassified as an attack aircraft carrier, the Bon Homme Richard underwent modernization and continued serving with the Pacific Fleet. The ship was decommissioned ...