The initialism was originally a bit of shipbuilder marketing—and now there are many different kinds of ship designations.

The United States Navy maintains an edge when it comes to sheer numerical superiority over most nations. When you have ...

The U.S. Navy was formed by the Continental Congress in October 1775, and its first ship was named the Alfred after the ninth-century Saxon king. Other early vessels were named for important ...

About 240 midshipmen hoisted placards designating their future deployments into the air Thursday as a crowd of supporters ...

“I joined the Navy almost 40 years ago and my passion ... affectionately known as “Swackets,” pick color-coded ship designation placards. Each placard hung below deployment locations both ...

France’s FREMM frigate FS Normandie is pictured during a NATO exercise in 2021. For NATO navies like the French Navy, more at-sea presence enabled by improved ship availability is central to building ...

The current and future size and composition of the Navy, the annual rate of Navy ship procurement, the prospective affordability of the Navy’s shipbuilding plans, the capacity of the U.S ...

Problems with drinking water aboard Navy ships is hardly a new phenomenon ... involved jet fuel -- often referred to by its official designation JP-5 -- getting into the water supply after ...

Limpet mines' suspected of blowing three holes in 'shadow fleet' oil tanker in Russian port - The vessel was hit below the ...

Part of the reason the Navy has set up its ships and squadrons that way -- completely unlike any other branch -- is because "we always have a wide range of both specialized and non-specialized ...

A newly released diagram of the under-construction 140-meter frigate for the Indonesian Navy—known as the Red White Frigate ...