BENICIA, Calif. -- From afar, the ghostly warships recall a fierce phalanx ready for battle. A closer look, though, shows the rust and rot of ships unfit for duty or even dismantling, a quandary that ...
BREMERTON — The shoreline of Sinclair Inlet near Naval Yard Highway, where the Navy berths their inactivated "mothball" fleet, has become more crowded as three decommissioned Ticonderoga class ...
The Navy is seeking entries for the 2024 New Year's Deck Log Poem Contest. Last year's first place winner was Lt. Artem Sherbinin, who wrote the deck log poem of the USS Bunker Hill (CG-52) between ...
In February 2008, when I held a hearing on the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet at Benicia City Hall, I was stunned when representatives from the U.S. Maritime Administration refused to even attend the ...
More than 200 people work in Southeast Texas maintaining a reserve fleet of ships so they're ready to go within five days in the event they are needed. The U.S. Maritime Administration’s Western Gulf ...
An M1 Abrams tank comes off the ramp of the MV Cape Washington, a Ready Reserve Fleet cargo vessel. The equipment arrived at the port in Vlissingen, Netherlands, on March 27, 2022, in support of ...
In February 2008, when I held a hearing on the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet at Benicia City Hall, I was stunned when representatives from the U.S. Maritime Administration refused to even attend the ...
Touting large-caliber guns and torpedos, battleships carried intense firepower and heavy armor. With the advancement of military technology, the need for battleships dwindled. There are only eight US ...