The USS Becuna submarine sank 3,888 tons of shipping and earned four battle stars in World War II.

The historic vessel "Vital de Oliveira" was positively identified more than a decade after an unsuspecting fisherman's net got caught on the shipwreck.

a Japanese crew that did not yet know World War II was officially over launched an attack that would be the final battle of the war. It was also the last battle between two ships under sail.

A World War II ship torpedoed by Adolf Hitler has been discovered along the coast of Rio De Janeiro using sonar imaging. More ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL––According to a CNN report, the Brazilian Navy confirmed the location of the shipwreck of Vital de ...

The Portland-class USS Indianapolis played an essential role in the outcome of World War II, being the ship that delivered components for the atomic bombs. As the flagship of the U.S. Fifth Fleet ...

"Protect the future, honor the past," was the signature phrase of the last living survivor of the USS Arizona, befriended by ...

Snunith Shoham says she was only a few months old in February 1947 when British authorities permitted her family to leave one ...

A World War II-era ship born along the Napa River and tested in harrowing Navy and Coast Guard missions by the dozens looks to have a better future than the scrap heap. Mark “Doc” Avraham is ...

Judy, an English Pointer born in 1936 in Shanghai, served as a mascot on HMS Gnat before becoming a World War II hero.

The U.S. Navy has used standard naming conventions for its ships and sumbarines since it was established in 1775, but who ...

As USS North Carolina, it was the lead ship of the North Carolina class of battleships and the first fast battleship built ...