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 ...

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 Navy’s Medium Landing Ship (LSM) program, previously called the Light Amphibious Warship (LAW) program, envisions procuring a class of 18 to 35 new amphibious ships to support the Marine ...

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 ...

(Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Matt Hall/Navy) The Navy’s new five-part plan to prepare new ships for deployment will require more maintenance time for the current fleet. However ...

But the US Navy sought to get eyes in the water as well ... Stealth submarine to surface ship Ben Rich, then the director of Lockheed's Skunk Works, decided to apply the F-117's stealthy coatings ...

French navy supply ship Jacques Chevallier arrives in Darwin as part of Frances Clemenceau mission in the Indo Pacific. Picture: Fia Walsh. From January 16 to 24 France led exercise La Perouse ...

To accomplish this mission the Continental Congress purchased, converted, and constructed a fleet of small ships -- frigates, brigs, sloops, and schooners. These navy ships sailed independently or ...

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While these ships will be homeported in Kodiak, they will operate throughout the 17th Coast Guard District to include the U.S. Arctic, Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea. An Italian navy ship carrying ...

Sailing off the south coast of England, the Russian trawler known as the Yantar carried its usual array of hi-tech equipment. In photographs released by the Ministry of Defence, a large radar dome ...