A visit to Mobile's Battleship Memorial Park as a child sparked my interest in World War II naval battles.

A team of scientists and explorers discovered the bow of the USS New Orleans off the coast of the Solomon Islands more than ...

In 1916, the Battle of Jutland saw the war’s largest naval battle as the navies of Britain and Germany fought for control of the North Sea.

It had lain underwater after accidental magazine explosions sank the battleship HMS Vanguard at Scapa Flow in 1917.

During the Battle of Tassafaronga, the USS New Orleans was struck by a Japanese torpedo that detonated its forward magazines, ...

A group of special operations vets retrace the Battle of Okinawa, following in the footsteps of the forefathers of today’s Navy SEALs.

A US Marine Corps aircraft has landed on a rebuilt runway on a World War II-era Japanese airfield on the Pacific island of Peleliu, site of one of the Marines’ bloodiest battles of the war and ...

After the attack, crews sailed the USS "New Orleans" backwards for more than 1,000 miles across the Pacific. Since then, the ...

The author thinks that as naval science has developed the battles of ships have become less sanguinary. We question the figures presented as to the total of vessels engaged and the number slain in ...