DDG, LHD, CVN? Decode key U.S. Navy ship abbreviations and learn what they mean and what vessels they designate.

For the U.S. Navy, boats perform missions from mundane maintenance chores such as hull scraping and cleaning overboard ...

To maintain its position as the strongest navy on the planet, the US Navy must constantly innovate. Billions of dollars are ...

Business Insider recently set sail aboard the destroyer USS Thomas Hudner for an overnight trip from England to France.

The Navy's current amphibious ship force is made up entirely of large craft, including the so-called "big-deck" amphibious assault ships, designated "LHA" and "LHD," which look like medium-sized ...

WAVY’s Navy Ship Salute is a feature on WAVY News 10 Today. Each month, in partnership with the U.S. Navy, WAVY-TV 10 will profile a different ship based at the world’s largest Navy base ...

The U.S. Navy supply ship Big Horn, left, steams alongside the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln on Sept. 11 in an undisclosed location in the Middle East.

The U.S. Navy is betting big on unmanned ships as a way to grow the fleet without busting its budget. The service, which currently has 300 warships, wants to grow to 523 by the year 2045 , with ...

A U.S. Navy replenishment ship sustained damage while operating in the Middle East, officials confirmed Tuesday. The vessel, named the USNS Big Horn , supplies fuel and provisions to the USS ...

If the Navy ships choose to approach China, many will be hit by Chinese missiles and damaged if not destroyed, resulting in lost U.S. ships and casualties on a scale unseen since World War II, the ...

Back from its deployment in the Red Sea, we are featuring U.S.S. Gravely for the monthly WAVY Navy Ship Salute. Commissioned in 2010, she is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer. Her cre… ...