The SS United States was poised to set sail at the end of last year on her final voyage from Philadelphia to the bottom of ...

What You Need to Know: The USS America (CVA/CV-66), a Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier, was sunk in 2005 after weeks of controlled explosions as part of a live-fire test to study how a large ...

What You Need to Know: In 2005, the U.S. Navy sunk the decommissioned USS America in a classified SINKEX exercise to gather data on the resilience of supercarriers. The 30-day scuttling process ...

A decommissioned aircraft carrier slated to leave Philadelphia will now stay for another day after plans to move it were ...

See the ex-USS John F. Kennedy, the Navy's last conventionally powered aircraft carrier, which was in a class of its own.

The USS Jacob Jones was sunk by a German U-boat in late 1917, killing more than half of its crew. By Nicholas Slayton Posted on Feb 18, 2024 For the first time in 107 years, something from the USS ...

(CNN) — It’s a day seared into America’s collective memory ... Pointedly, he reminded Japanese officials of how the sinking of the battleship USS Maine in Havana Harbor in 1898 had sparked ...

America’s flagship — the magnificent SS ... where it is set to be prepped for sinking. The primary barrier for the ocean liner came in the form of a “Captain of the Port Order” sent ...