At the commencement of World War II, the Navy and the Army-woefully lacking small ships able to p...

Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Navy obtained approximately 700 vessels from private ow...

From 1953-1994, sixty-five U.S. Navy ocean minesweepers (MSOs) swept mines; searched the seafloor...

Possessing insufficient minesweepers to protect U.S. harbors and bays as the threat of war in Eur...

The story of the South Atlantic campaign in World War II, and that of the U.S. 4th Fleet and Roya...

U.S. Navy rescue tugs and salvage ships were in the thick of the action during the invasion of Fr...

In WWI under a crippling naval blockade of its North Sea ports which ultimately resulted in the s...

Cloaked by jungle foliage, the unheralded seaplane tenders operated ahead of the Fleet, like the ...

As war with Japan was imminent, the British laid minefields off Hong Kong and Singapore; the Dutc...

When Britain declared war on Germany in September 1939, the Royal Navy was deficient in minelayer...

During the Vietnam War, 270 U.S. Navy and four Royal Australian Navy warships served at various t...

During the Vietnam War, 142 'gators' (amphibious ships) served in the combat zone. As deeper-draf...