The largest ever mounted on a warship, each gun could fire 3,200-pound (1,460 kg) shells over 26 miles (42 kilometers).

Although battleships were supplanted by aircraft carriers by the end of World War II, they remain a testament to a bygone era ...

Coined by the military as "landing ship, tanks," or LSTs, U.S. forces deployed ships from southern Indiana to the Pacific ...

The last of the ships that some credit with winning World War II for the Allies has plowed through the waters of the Midwest, where people got a chance to visit it.

The U.S.S. Edsall’s 2023 discovery at the bottom of the Indian Ocean is reviving the tale of the ship the Japanese forces ...

National Geographic Explorer-at-Large Bob Ballard revisits the Iron Bottom Sound—rediscovering vessels, and making new finds.

Scientists and explorers have found the severed bow of a damaged World War II warship. A team aboard the Exploration Vessel Nautilus found the USS New Orleans 675 meters deep in the Solomon Islands' ...

RICHMOND — A call has gone out for welders, construction workers, donors and other volunteers to help support the revitalization of the Red Oak Victory, a World War II ship docked off the Richmond ...

A famed Japanese destroyer sunk by U.S. torpedoes during a pivotal battle in World War II has been discovered on the floor of the Pacific Ocean more than 80 years after it sank, an exploration team ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- A fire engulfed a warehouse on San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf early Saturday, sending a thick plume of smoke over the waterfront and threatening to spread to a historic World War ...