Few reporters outside of the maritime community noted that the newly appointed 77th secretary of the Navy, Kenneth Braithwaite, made the U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command his first official ...

At seventy-three, John Hattendorf is still going strong. For over thirty years now, Hattendorf has been the Ernest J. King Professor of Maritime Studies at the United States Naval War College. Ask ...

It isn’t immediately obvious how to classify naval disasters. Is it by the number of ships that went down? The size of the vessels destroyed? The number of casualties? Some disasters involved more ...

Interior of isolation ward, Naval hospital at Naval Training Camp Gulfport, Miss., during 1918 influenza epidemic. (U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command photo) As the 1918 flu pandemic raged, Navy ...

History and technological change : the study of history in the U.S. Navy 1873-1890 --- Luce's idea of the Naval War College --- Technology and strategy : professional thought in the U.S. Navy, ...

Sep. 3—With all the current buzz over the future of the Navy's former Mare Island Shipyard, there's no time like the present to relive the yard's past. The upcoming Founder's Day event on Mare Island ...

Ancient peoples battled to master the sea. The earliest warships on record date back to Egyptian civilization. Ancient mariners took to the Nile River in boats constructed of lashed reeds and coated ...

An explosion on the USS St. Lo (CVE-63) after she was hit by a kamikaze attack off Samar during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Oct. 25, 1944. Today, American strategists are once again focused on the ...

The Naval School was founded in Annapolis, Maryland in the wake of a shocking scandal at sea on this day in history, Oct. 10, 1845. The renowned military institute was renamed the U.S. Naval Academy ...

Key Point: America’s strength has always been her navy. Oct. 13 marked the 243rd birthday of the United States Navy. The Navy has grown and evolved dramatically from that first “swift sailing vessel” ...

The 90-minute tour brings visitors inside a sports complex, the world's largest dormitory, and the Naval Academy's landmark ...