Summary and What You Need to Know: USS Essex (CV-9), the lead ship of the Essex-class aircraft carriers, had a storied career that significantly impacted U.S. naval history. Laid down ...

The Best: During World War II, the United States Navy commissioned 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers, making it the most numerous class of capital warships of the 20th century. These carriers ...

The Essex-class carrier, built at Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock, was first decommissioned in 1947. Returned to service five years later, Intrepid became the first modern attack carrier with ...

Eastern Airways joins easyJet at London Southend, where passengers can routinely get from the plane to the train or car park ...

The New USS Intrepid Last Friday, Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro officially named DDG-145 the future USS Intrepid while aboard the retired Essex-class aircraft carrier that shares its namesake.

(“Jimmy”) Thach, inventor of the Navy fighter plane technique for Jap-killing, known as the “Thach weave.” Flying Leathernecks. From one of the Essex-class carriers flew two squadrons of ...

One of the Russian ships was detained Sunday by the Swedes for further investigation, the Journal reports. The ship’s owner ...

A pub landlord from Essex is among three people to have been jailed in the midst of a widespread conspiracy to supply drugs. Simon Renoldi, 53, had control of the Railway Tavern in Stanford-le-Hope ...

Carrier bags containing cash were forensically examined and ... conspiracy to supply ecstasy and two counts of conspiracy to supply a Class B drug. Hutchinson was charged with conspiracy to supply ...