PORT HUENEME, Calif., April 17 (UPI) -- Ross Perot will be in California Saturday for the commissioning of a ship named after vice-presidential running mate James Stockdale, the Navy League announced.
MILWAUKEE, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- The U.S. Navy successfully launched the USS Freedom, the first Littoral Combat Ship, during a commissioning ceremony in Milwaukee.
HONOLULU, July 30 (UPI) -- The U.S. Navy says it is premature to blame the beaching of a whale in Hawaii on nearby exercises using sonar.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 (UPI) -- The U.S. Navy plans to sink 15 decommissioned ships and scrap an additional 24 in the next five years, military officials said.
BAGHDAD, March 26 (UPI) -- Four people, including two U.S. sailors, were injured when the destroyer USS McCampbell collided with a merchant ship from Kiribati near the Iraqi coast.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- The government is investigating whether a Navy sonar caused 37 whales to beach themselves in North Carolina Jan. 15, according to the Washington Post.
SAN DIEGO, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- The crew of a U.S. destroyer will be decommissioning their ship next week and then taking over another vessel at an overseas port.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- A coalition of environmental groups is suing the U.S. Navy and the National Marine Fisheries Service in U.S. District Court, charging the Navy has no legal right to deploy a very noisy underwater sonar system designed to detect submarines.
LOS ANGELES, July 16 (UPI) --
WASHINGTON, March 12 (UPI) -- A Navy helicopter with three people aboard from the USS Hayler destroyer crashed early Tuesday off the coast of Greece in the Mediterranean Sea on a routine flight check, according to U.S. European Command.