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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

USS President Jackson under attack during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. In the center background, smoke rises after an Japanese plane crashed into the superstructure of USS San Francisco. (U.S.

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 ...

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 ...

Central to that was cutting Japan off from the rest of its empire — especially the Dutch East Indies, where it got much of its oil. That would effectively end Japan's ability to operate a wartime ...

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

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 ...