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 second and final phase of a project to remove hundreds of thousands of gallons of toxic pollutants from the U.S.S. Yorktown is set to get underway on Monday.

The USS Hancock (CV-19), the Essex-class aircraft carrier my father served on during the Vietnam War, was laid down on Jan. 26, 1943, and launched less than a year later, on Jan. 24, 1944, in time to ...

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 ...