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.

American, Japanese and French carriers are currently jointly operating in the Pacific as part of a "multi-large deck event." ...

The collision occurred between the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) and the merchant vessel ...

British Airways is looking for a new batch of pilots to work for the airline with its Speedbird Pilot Academy.

While previous destroyer classes were designed primarily for ship and shore bombardment, these Atlanta-class light cruises protected carriers with anti-aircraft guns and torpedos. San Diego was ...

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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While this carrier was not as celebrated as other classes, it still earned two battle stars throughout the war. The Essex class was an iconic group of aircraft carriers vital to the United States ...

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 ...

The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office says that ... system Bill and Melinda Gates gave their kids a strict ‘middle-class' upbringing, refused to just 'buy them things' with their billions ...

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighters assigned to the carrier offer a case in point for what more shipboard ... significantly enhancing the aircraft’s survivability and lethality.” Normally, such an update ...