Blame the Patriots more than the cunning Dunmore. Norfolk native Andrew Lawler’s latest book is a lively gathering of ...
The U.S. Navy got started twice. The first time was on October 13, 1775, when the Continental Congress passed a resolution ...
The UK is moving forward with plans to deploy its new DragonFire laser weapon on warships. Lasers could offer a cheap defense ...
The latest HMS Dreadnought was laid down at BAE Systems' state-of-the-art submarine construction and assembly facility in ...
The role of Billy Flora, a free Black man, in this pivotal victory — and the erosion later of rights — show a paradox of the nation’s founding. Flora stayed in the Portsmouth area, operating ...
This is understandable, since it was certainly the predominant ASW weapon type of that war (as well as World War I; Britain’s Royal Navy developed the depth charge back in 1916). Depth charges could ...
Two notable vessels of radically different eras and purposes slipped quietly into St. Michaels harbor recently. One, the ...
After series of American strikes said to kill 53, Yemeni rebels vow to 'confront escalation with escalation'; Israel is on ...
Houthi said his militants would continue to target American ships in the Red Sea as long as the U.S. attacks Yemen, warning, ...
The United States and Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen are both vowing escalation after the U.S. launched airstrikes to ...
The most serious clash occurred when a revenue cutter cornered the smuggling vessel the Black Snake near the mouth of the Winooski River in Burlington. A smuggler and a local teenaged boy shot at the ...
Some British naval ships carried nuclear weapons during the Falklands War, it has emerged. The Ministry of Defence confirmed that it did have some nuclear depth chargers, used for destroying ...