The brief announcement of the arrival at this port of the U.S. steam sloop Pensacola was made last ... as is usual on the arrival of a war-vessel at the Navy-yard. The authorities refuse to ...

Dispute between a naval lieutenant and a future Revolutionary War hero may have sparked the historic burning of a British ...

During World War II, with British shipbuilders already taxed to their limits, one small error made an entire fleet of new ...

Argentina's Defense Ministry Wednesday announced it was pulling the the decommisioned sloop ARA Alférez Sobral ... 13 at the Mar del Plata Naval Base, according to the Official Gazette.

John Barry, "the father of the U.S. Navy," soundly defeated a British frigate ... The agenda includes a "first volley" fired by a sloop on nearby Sykes Creek, dedication of a marker donated ...

On September 10, 1779, the Continental Navy’s schooner USS Morris took on the British Sloop of War, HMS West Florida. After a fierce battle, the West Florida was captured. “The victory by the ...

When the United States broke off from England, it needed a navy to contend with the most powerful maritime force in the land. Today, we’re looking at America’s oldest naval vessels.

The first USS Antietam was a screw sloop of war, and construction began in 1864 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. The second was an Essex-class aircraft carrier launched Aug. 20, 1944, and ...

The HMS Gaspee seizes Greene's sloop A month earlier, Royal Navy lieutenant William Dudingston, commanding the Gaspee, had been ordered to Narragansett Bay to enforce customs regulations and stop ...