Naval battles in the Age of Sail weren’t just chaos — they were calculated, brutal chess matches with cannon fire. This video breaks down how broadsides, double-shots, and deadly close-range raking ...

The gunboat sank during the Revolutionary War and wasn't found for 159 years. The Smithsonian is sprucing it up for America's 250th birthday.

General Dynamics-NASSCO on Saturday christened the 784-foot USNS Hector A. Cafferata, Jr., the last of six super-sized ...

On March 10, 1783, the last naval battle of the American Revolution was fought off Cape Canaveral, as Captains John Barry and John Green tried to deliver a shipload of Spanish silver to the ...

After France signed an armistice in June 1940, Britain feared the French Navy could be seized or forced into Axis service. At Mers el Kebir in North Africa, Force H arrived with an ultimatum demanding ...

Shipbuilder General Dynamics NASSCO christened the USNS Hector A. Cafferata Jr. (ESB 8), the sixth and final ship in the U.S.

Battleships once ruled the seas, but they have since been replaced by aircraft carriers. The idea of returning to this ...

When a drone struck a Royal Air Force base in Cyprus on the night of 1st March, the UK was forced to reconsider its hands-off approach to America’s war with Iran. In a recorded ...

Officials in New Delhi say that an Iranian warship that was sunk by a U.S. submarine near Sri Lanka had participated in naval exercises hosted by India before heading out into international waters in ...

The sinking underscored the scope of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran and its spread in the Middle East and beyond. It also ...

The U.S. and Israel's war with Iran has expanded to the Indian Ocean, as a U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship in international waters.

Yes, they were brutal. They also had women leaders, coveted luxury, and encountered more than 50 cultures from Afghanistan to ...