In the past few months, the Navy experienced the worst peacetime surface ship collisions in over 41 years. When the USS McCain and the USS Fitzgerald collided with commercial vessels, it claimed the ...

In a darkened room on Naval Station Norfolk that simulated the bridge of a destroyer, Ensign Alex Varon took a crack at doing something that would likely never happen in the real world: docking a ship ...

A junior officer looks through binoculars while standing watch on the bridge aboard the destroyer Carney. (MC2 James Turner/Navy) WASHINGTON — A three-month internal review conducted by senior U.S.

A Mark 45 gun fires from the cruiser Lake Champlain in May, about a week after it collided with a South Korean fishing vessel. (MC2 Nathan K. Serpico/Navy) Of the Navy’s four at-sea mishaps this year ...

Transiting from the open seas to a constricted and highly trafficked sea lane for the final approach to a busy port is a demanding seamanship task, if for no other reason than you are operating in ...

To the editor: There was yet another collision recently involving a guided-missile destroyer and a commercial vessel. The collision reported in The Times emphasizes the poor seamanship of our U.S.

Collisions between U.S. Navy ships and commercial vessels have cost 17 sailors their lives in June and August of this year, aboard the USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62), on June 17, and the USS John S. McCain ...

The Michigan Maritime Museum is offering basic seamanship classes to those interested in learning how to sail the Museum’s traditionally-rigged sailing vessel Friends Good Will. Students will learn ...

Collisions between U.S. Navy ships and commercial vessels have cost 17 sailors their lives in June and August of this year, aboard the USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62), on June 17, and the USS John S. McCain ...