Bob Gamboa talks about his life on a naval ship during WWII.

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 of warfare—and a symbol of their nations’ might.

The U.S. Navy did not finish construction of the USS Illinois battleship because aircraft carriers became the dominant naval ...

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

The United States has bombed six ships near Venezuela President Donald Trump greenlit the CIA to operate inside the country.

Ohio’s influence can be found in every Navy era — from the battle that secured Lake Erie to the Cleveland-built engines that ...

In his diary, Lam wrote of a narrow brush with death on D-Day aboard HMS Ramillies, as the battleship’s mighty guns were ...

OUISTREHAM, France (AP) — The captain of the giant Royal Navy battleship called his officers together to give them a first ...

From WW II submarines to 19th-century trade shipwrecks, the Wisconsin Maritime Museum illuminates the history of ...

The USS Cobia World War II submarine returned to the Manitowoc museum Oct. 15 after a more than month-long dry dock in ...