The world’s oldest commissioned naval warship still afloat has gained its newest commanding officer, who says he will continue to build on Old Ironsides’ legacy with his crew. Cmdr. Jon-Andrew D. Anderson has taken command of the USS Constitution as…
On May 6, 1956, off the Virginia Capes, the destroyer USS Eaton, radar dead for four days, turned hard at 27 knots toward a man-overboard call that turned out to be a floating white hat, straight into the path of the 57,500-ton battleship…
Ordered under the Two-Ocean Navy Act of July 1940, the five Montana-class battleships, Montana, Ohio, Maine, New Hampshire and Louisiana, would have been 921 feet and 72,104 tons, with twelve 16-inch Mark 7 guns in four triple turrets, 21,000 tons of armor up to 18 inches…
During the Korean War, Wisconsin shelled North Korean and Chinese targets in support of United Nations and South Korean ground operations, after which she was decommissioned. It was there in 1952 that the North Koreans learned the folly of trying to…
The State of Illinois is known as the “Land of Lincoln,” a commander-in-chief under whom the United States Navy made major technological strides, so it’s entirely appropriate that the Navy bestowed the USS Illinois moniker on multiple warships throughout the…
Nauticus and the USS Wisconsin: what's on, what's changing and what it means to the city.
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