USS Essex (CV-9), the lead ship of the Essex-class aircraft carriers, had a storied career that significantly impacted U.S.

The 1967 fire aboard the USS Forrestal, the United States' first supercarrier, remains one of the most catastrophic naval ...

A starship with an illustrious heritage that was gone before her time.

In the final weeks of World War II, a Japanese torpedo sank an American heavy cruiser. Only 316 of the 900 sailors who survived the initial attack were ultimately rescued ...

Today, launching rockets from ships is commonplace, but one ship from 1945 paved the way for these innovations. Here's the ...

Over the many seasons of Star Trek we have seen many crews of the USS Enterprise. But after the initial pilot was shot, the entire crew was actually fired except for Leonard Nimoy's Spock. Many Star ...