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 ...

Emerson confirmed that the order came from Gonzales. All of the sailors described dumping fuel as a common procedure on Navy ships, typically an uneventful action where fuel dissipates into the ...

Ships rely on the roughly 7,000 undesignated ... lives to know what they want to do," Baze said. Despite all the figures, goals and Navy ambitions for the future, for some sailors this entire ...

Two U.S. Navy ships sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait this week in the first such mission since President Donald Trump took office last month, drawing an angry reaction from China, which said ...