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US Navy says Iran boats ‘harassed’ ship in Strait of Hormuz
The guided-missile destroyer USS McFaul and the Royal Navy’s frigate HMS Lancaster responded to the incident, according to the U.S. Navy.
By Jon Gambrell, The Associated Press
Another Revolutionary War shipwreck found in York River
Like most of the 10 wrecks previously discovered, this one is entombed in the muck, a ghostly witness to America's fight for freedom, shrouded with a mound of silt and oyster shells.
By Joanne Kimberlin, The Virginian-Pilot
London sending warship to the Persian Gulf
The British navy said Thursday it had stopped three Iranian paramilitary vessels from disrupting the passage of a British oil tanker through the Strait of Hormuz.
When John Paul Jones crossed over
In 1905, an American cruiser took the remains of the Revolutionary War naval hero home.
By Ellen Hampton, Military History Magazine
Meet America’s daring frigate captains
In the War of 1812, Britain’s powerful Royal Navy met its match in a determined band of U.S. Navy warship commanders.
By Cmdr. Benjamin "B.J." Armstrong
UK F-35Bs flying combat missions over Syria, Iraq
The first mission against Islamic State fighters was flown from Cyprus.
Relearning the lessons of BALTOPS
On the doorstep of a resurgent Russia, a force of 8,600 personnel from 18 nations on board 50 ships and two submarines practices war at sea.
By Mark D. Faram
John Paul Jones: Sea power visionary
John Paul Jones pioneered the idea of global sea power a century before the rise of the modern U.S. Navy.
By Joseph F. Callo, Military History Magazine
Revolutionary War shipwrecks get first good look in years
In May, for the first time in nearly three decades, archaeologists slipped into the murky York to assess what's left of the Lost Fleet at Yorktown, a British convoy sent to its doom during the last major battle of the Revolutionary War.
By Joanne Kimberlin, The Virginian-Pilot
Undefended shore: American antisubmarine operations in 1942
In 1942 American merchant ships up and down the Atlantic Coast were being relentlessly attacked by German U-boats. Why did the U.S. Navy secretly decide to leave them unprotected?
By Ed Offley, MHQ — The Quarterly Journal of Military History