On Nov. 30, 1942, the USS New Orleans was in the middle of a pitched battle off of Guadalcanal. A Japanese torpedo scored a ...

The USS New Orleans was at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, and responded to the Japanese air attack. Later, the vessel pulled USS Lexington sailors from the water during the Battle of the Coral Sea and ...

In a remarkable twist of history, the role of fruit in a WWII naval escape has come to light with the discovery of the USS ...

Researchers and scientists found a part of an 80-year-old damaged World War II warship more than 600 meters deep in the Pacific Ocean.

On Nov. 30, 1942, a torpedo sank the heavy cruiser New Orleans, sending it to the bottom of the Pacific. Its whereabouts were lost to history — until now.

The USS New York, named to commemorate the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, left the Northrop Grumman shipyard where it was built for the trip to its namesake city. The $1 billion ship will be formally ...

The $1.3 billion USS New Orleans is the fourth ship to bear the New Orleans name. The last one was an amphibious assault vessel that served during the Vietnam War and in the Persian Gulf during ...

NEW ORLEANS — When you visit the USS New Orleans' Facebook page, it's hard to miss the account tag and link — it's @BigEasy18. Costing American taxpayers between $1.5 billion and $2.2 billion ...

USS New Orleans (LPD 18), the San Diego-based amphibious transport dock ship, will be the first to dock at the 950-foot floating repair facility.

The USS New York emerged from a thick fog to a swell of patriotic music, loud cheers and hundreds of waving Old Glories. When it sailed past them and again vanished, at least one man said he had ...

“USS New Orleans was the victim of probably the most devastating surface torpedo attack in history, which sank the heavy cruiser USS Northampton and severely damaged other heavy cruisers,” Cox ...