Key point: While most of Essex-class vessels were decommissioned in the 1970s, the last still in service, the USS Lexington, remained active as a training ship until 1991. Four of the ...

Summary: The USS Lexington (CV-16), an Essex-class aircraft carrier, played a crucial role in World War II after being commissioned in 1943. Initially named Cabot, it was renamed to honor ...

When the Korean War broke out, the F2H Banshee and the Grumman F9F Panther were the US Navy’s primary jet fighters, flying from same Essex class ... such as the USS Lexington Museum in Corpus ...

General Dynamics Corporation’s GD business unit, Electric Boat, recently clinched a contract involving USS Ohio Class submarines. The award has been offered by the Supervisor of Shipbuilding ...

The Navy christened its newest San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock, USS Harrisburg, on Saturday in Pascagoula, Miss. LPD 30, built by HII, is named after Pennsylvania’s capital city and ...

President Biden announced the names of the newest aircraft carriers that will join the U.S. Navy: USS William J ... "years ahead" as part of the latest class of aircraft carriers, according ...

The retired USS John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier will embark on its final voyage Thursday morning after spending nearly two decades docked in Philadelphia. The retired Navy carrier is set to ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The decommissioned aircraft carrier, formerly named after President John F. Kennedy, has begun its journey as it heads south from the Philadelphia Navy Yard to the scrapyard ...

Del Toro dubbed the Medium Landing Ship the McClung class, with USS McClung (LSM-1) as the lead ship. The vessel is named after Marine Corps Maj. Megan McClung, a public affairs officer who was ...

A sailor assigned to carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72 ... Logistics Specialist 3rd Class Bailey Szramowski, of Pennsylvania, was charged with knowingly and intentionally distributing fentanyl ...