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 ...

The following is the Jan. 23, 2025, Congressional Research Service report, Navy Medium Landing Ship (LSM) Program: Background ...

The Navy destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62) became the first warship to deploy with a program-of-record artificial ...

By Matt White Posted on Jan 13, 2025 When a future generation of Navy sailors project ... Donald Trump could expect ships named for them. CORRECTION: 1/14/2025; An earlier version of this article ...

Landing/Attack Craft: 4 LCUs or 2 LCUs and 1 LCAC. Amphibious Assault Ships are the U.S. Navy’s largest of all ... s electrical grid instead of using main propulsion engines to power the ship ...

The United States Navy has a tradition of naming many of its popular ships after U.S. presidents. Here are five that stand ...

U.S. Navy plans to increase the number of ships in its fleet would cost more than $1 trillion over the... The USS Abraham Lincoln guided by tugboats in San Diego Bay on December 20, 2024.

(Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Matt Hall/Navy) The Navy’s new five-part plan to prepare new ships for deployment ...