On Nov. 30, 1942, a torpedo sank the heavy cruiser New Orleans, sending it to the bottom of the Pacific. Its whereabouts were lost to history — until now.

The bow, which fell to a depth of 2,214 feet, had been unaccounted for since Nov. 30, 1942, when a Japanese torpedo detonated the ship’s forward magazines during the Battle of Tassafaronga, the ...

The U.S. Coast Guard’s Barque Eagle will be visiting Seattle and open for public tours on July 9 and 10, according to a ...

Villagers complained about lack of government help and suggested the official death toll estimates were far lower than the reality they see, according to CNN's Cal Perry who arriv ...

The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 ...

WAVY’s Navy Ship Salute is a feature on WAVY News 10 Today. Each month, in partnership with the U.S. Navy, WAVY-TV 10 will profile a different ship based at the world’s largest Navy base ...

Aboard the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge for the monthly WAVY Navy Ship Salute, we were greeted from multiple levels of the ship, and with posters in hand, with extreme enthusiasm.

According to the Department of Defense’s mid-October announcement of the awards, the Norfolk Ship Repair unit received a $114.8 million firm-fixed-price contract for work on the USS Laboon, ...

The USS Kearsarge (LHD-3), a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship, is under routine maintenance at the British Aerospace (BAE) Shipyard in Norfolk, Va.

Petty Officer First Class Paul Williams, a 2010 Loy Norrix graduate, is currently serving on the USS Kearsarge, the third ship in the Navy's Wasp class of assault ships.

The US Navy (USN) awarded BAE Systems a USD294.7 million contract to dry-dock the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) for more than 20 months to do maintenance and modernisation work on ...