2.(Nautical Terms) United States Ship Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014 USS orU.S.S., 1.United States Senate. ...
arriving in Bermuda on 4 March. She returned briefly to Naval Station Norfolk, where she served as a school ship, then headed for New York City to join the screen of a convoy escort bound for England on 14 May. Refueling at Greenock, Scotland, the ship ...
On 15 March 1951 a seven-ship naval bombardment of the Wonsan district resulted in reported enemy casualties of some 6 000. The following afternoon shore batteries fired at the ships in the harbor and counter battery fire from the destroyers began in a matter of seconds. Gun positions were t...
The USS Lexington (CV-2), nicknamed "Lady Lex", was a Lexington class aircraft carrier that was fielded by the United States Navy. It was the lead ship for the Lexington class, however her sister ship, the USS Saratoga, was commissioned a month earlier.
The amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6) departs its homeport of Naval Base San Diego. America departed San Diego to join the forward-deployed naval forces in Sasebo, Japan, where it will serve as the flagship for Expeditionary Strike Group 7. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication...
USS Hunt (DD-674) was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy, the second Navy ship named for William H. Hunt, Secretary of the Navy under President James A. Garfield. Hunt was launched by the Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Kearny, N.J.
which, in its own humble way, was an innovator as well, according to the Naval Historical Center: "The Navy's first surface ship propelled by electric motors, she was an engineering prototype for the turbo-electric propulsion system widely used in Navy capital ships" over the next two decade...
Surviving Enterprise artifacts include the ship's bell, which resides at the U.S. Naval Academy,where it is traditionally rung only after Midshipmen victories over West Point; and the sixteen-foot (4.9 m), one-ton nameplate from the ship's stern, which sits near a Little League park in...
The ship, whose name honors the rich Navy shipbuilding tradition of the Virginia city, is scheduled to be launched in 1986, coinciding with the shipyard's 100th anniversary. Newport News Shipbuilding designed the Los Angeles class submarine, and also built the lead ship of the class. The Los...
She was the first United States Navy submarine to sink a Japanese ship during World War II. Her keel was laid down on 27 October 1937 by the Mare Island Naval Shipyard of Vallejo, California. She was launched on 3 April 1939 sponsored by Miss Louise Shaw Hepburn, and commissioned on 22 ...