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 ...
From windows of San Francisco hilltop buildings last week, office workers saw six rust-splotched cargo vessels towed through the bay. They were the first of 16 merchant ships which the Military Sea ...
When the Korean War broke out, the last thing the U.S. public worried about was a dearth of merchant ships. After all, the U.S. had a mothball fleet of 2,154 World War II cargo vessels ready for ...
WILLIAMSBURG, Va., May 17 -- Virginia Gov. Mark R. Warner got a firsthand look today at the decrepit "Ghost Fleet" of reserve ships on the James River, and he offered a plan aimed at keeping them from ...