More On Ships

Taiwan's defense ministry on Monday said two U.S. warships sailed through the Taiwan Strait over the weekend.

It's been 30 years since an explosion inside the number two gun turret on the USS Iowa killed 47 American sailors.

Nineteen amphibious ships were ready to sail this week, Lt. Gen. David Berger told lawmakers Tuesday.

The USS Fort McHenry has apparently been avoiding port calls for months after 25 aboard were diagnosed with a viral disease.

The inventor Geoffrey Pyke suggested the use of large floating ice islands to serve as floating airfields in the Atlantic.

The Essex Amphibious Ready Group and the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit just wrapped up a deployment.

Ships have been flying the First Navy Jack -- a symbol of the Global War on Terrorism -- since 2002.

"In a perfect world -- and hindsight is 20/20 -- we would've built this back in probably 2008 and not today."

Inactive frigates, destroyers and other mothballed vessels won't be making their way back to the fleet, Navy leaders decided.

When the Navy christened the Sea Hunter in 2016, officials said it could change the nature of U.S. maritime operations.