War at Sea

She was once one of the US Navy’s most powerful warships, but today USS Midway is one of California’s most popular tourist attractions. Her 47 years of active service saw the aircraft carrier participate in virtually every post war campaign including

Everything in the United States is done on a grander, bigger and more spectacular scale than anywhere else in the world and it is true of their naval museums too. America is the world’s premier naval superpower and has held the title since the end of

Construction of USS Texas was authorised on 24 June 1910 with the work being awarded to Newport News Shipbuilding. The first steel plates were laid down on the slipway on 17 April 1911 and she was launched on 18 May 1912. She was commissioned into th

One of the finest destroyer designs produced was the famed Fletcher-class of which USS Cassin Young is one of just four that survive today. Built by Bethlehem Shipbuilding at San Pedro in California she commissioned into service on the last day of 19

USS Olympia is perhaps the most evocative American naval memorial as she retains most of her late 19th century features and fittings and is the oldest steel US warship afloat. Built at Union Iron Works in San Francisco she commissioned in February 18

At 40ft long this small and physically unimposing vessel is perhaps one of the most significant in the history of America’s Silent Service. H.L Hunley, often referred to as just Hunley, CSS H. L. Hunley or as CSS Hunley, played a small part in the Am

SS Jeremiah O’Brien is a class EC2-SCI ship that was completed in just 56 days by the New England Shipbuilding Corporation in South Portland, Maine and was launched on 19 June 1943. At the end of the war and with such a vast fleet of Liberty and Vict