The U.S. Navy has used standard naming conventions for its ships and sumbarines since it was established in 1775, but who ...

A German submarine torpedoed the "Vital de Oliveira" in July 1944, killing some 100 of the 270 crew members onboard ...

Warships are a critical component of any military, but some ships were designed to intimidate through their sheer size. Here ...

After more than 80 years hidden beneath the waves off Rio de Janeiro, the location of a Brazilian troop transport ship ...

As recently as July, the Brazilian navy had told Brazil’s O Globo newspaper ... as an auxiliary naval craft when Brazil entered World War II on the side of the Allies. It was transporting ...

Courtesy Brazilian Navy The Vital de Oliveira was a civilian ship, built in 1910 and outfitted as an auxiliary naval craft when Brazil entered World War II on the side of the Allies. It was ...

Soemu Toyoda’s complex plan for the much-depleted Imperial Japanese Navy to strike a blow against the U.S. forces landing on ...

At just 17 years old, Joseph Coy left Pittsfield High School to enlist in the Navy, serving on Utah Beach on D-Day and later ...

The Navy’s surface fleet has spent the past 15 months taking down hundreds of missiles and drones fired by Yemen’s ...