One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...

No Cold War carriers have been preserved as museums, and it is disappointing that CV-63 or CV-67 couldn't be saved from the scrappers.

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Secretary of Navy Carlos Del Toro salutes in the rain as he arrives for the USS Richard M ... to volunteer for naval service during World War II and the first to be promoted to an O-6 rank.

The retired Navy carrier is set to depart from South Philadelphia's Navy Yard around 9 a.m., and will travel to Brownsville, Texas where it'll be taken apart. The USS JFK's departure was ...

Ronan Hughes, 45, had charged migrants £14,000 each on the run from Zeebrugge, Belgium, to Purfleet in Essex and made £180,000 on just one trip. Trucker Maurice Robinson, 30, had found the ...

The former USS John F. Kennedy departed Philadelphia for ... "Commissioned on Sept. 7, 1968, CV 67 was the first Navy ship to be named John F. Kennedy and was the last conventionally powered ...

Pakistan's national airline has been criticised for an advert that shows a plane flying towards the Eiffel Tower - with some saying it bears similarities to imagery ...

No, not that one. The decommissioned aircraft carrier formerly known as the USS John F. Kennedy is scheduled to depart from the Navy Yard early Thursday, marking the start of what will be its final ...

KITTERY, Maine — Cmdr. Kenneth Ingle turned command of the USS Texas (SSN 775) over to Cmdr. Andrew McGovern in a traditional change-of-command ceremony Jan. 10 at Naval Submarine Base New ...

This year’s $187.4 million Essex County budget proposed by County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo on Tuesday, Jan. 14, includes a 1.99 percent tax increase. Essex County tax increases averaged 1. ...