is commonly seen returning to port flying a pirate flag. Flying the skull and crossbones isn't reserved strictly for submarines these days. The USS Kidd, an Arleigh-Burke-class guided missile ...

It's drydock day for the USS Kidd, which is set for some repair and refurbishment at a Houma shipyard. The Fletcher-class destroyer that usually lives next to its museum on the Mississippi River ...

that features a walk-thru replica of an 18 th-century pirate ship’s gun deck with cannons and tells the story behind USS KIDD’s nickname, “The Pirate of the Pacific.” The Museum’s ...

Where earlier plunderers, like Kidd, had sailed beneath the banners of leading empires, eighteenth-century pirates often hoisted the Jolly Roger: black (or sometimes red) flags featuring skulls ...

Captain Kidd may have buried his ... despite popular myth, most pirates did not fly the famous Jolly Roger—a skull and crossbones symbol on a black flag. Some flew a black flag, which meant ...

EVERETT, Wash. — The USS Kidd returned to Naval Station Everett Monday morning after a seven-month deployment. Families, friends, and fellowmilitary personnel could be seen at theNaval Station ...

The USS Kidd is headed down the Mississippi River for the first time in nearly 40 years. the ship is set to embark for much needed restorations in Houma. The USS Kidd, a Fletcher-class destroyer ...

That being said, Kidd is able to fly the flag for a different reason. Following the commissioning of the first USS Kidd in 1943 ... both his piracy and working alongside the French to hunt pirates ...

The USS Kidd's pirate flag, the infamous skull and crossbones that hearkens back to the Golden Age of Piracy that spanned the 17th and 18th centuries, is the only one the U.S. Navy has ever ...

Downtown Baton Rouge will look a little different at some point soon, with the USS Kidd getting ready to head off for a long overdue spruce-up. Just when the World War II-era destroyer will head ...

The USS Kidd is one of Baton Rouge's most recognizable ... An engaging exhibit about pirates, relating the story behind the crew's self-appointed "Pirates of the Pacific" nickname, is his doing. " ...