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First Navy submarine uses Portsmouth’s improved dry dock

The super flood basin is akin to a navigational lock that upgrades the shallowest of the shipyard’s dry docks, allowing submarines to enter independent of tides and without buoyancy.

2 years ago

Navy should be ‘offended’ by its own maintenance and manning faults, admiral says

Adm. Daryl Caudle, commander of U.S. Fleet Forces Command, said the Navy does not have the “luxury to do more with less.”

By Megan Eckstein and Diana Stancy

2 years ago

Police: three sailors dead in apparent murder-suicide shooting

Officials aren’t saying yet what led to one young sailor to kill two other young sailors at a 7-Eleven store near Naval Medical Center Portsmouth.

By Mark D. Faram

5 years ago

Pols make Portsmouth Naval Shipyard pitch to SECNAV

It was a bipartisan push to preserve shipyard construction programs instead of diverting money to Trump's border wall project.

5 years ago

Officials: ‘Domestic’ shooting wounds woman, base security kills sailor gunman

Officials are investigating the incident.

By Mark D. Faram

5 years ago

Senator urges SECNAV to prize shipyard over Trump’s wall

President Donald Trump declared a national emergency last month to pursue money from federal military construction and counterdrug efforts to pay for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

5 years ago

Delegation: Shipyard, National Guard could suffer because of wall

New Hampshire’s Democratic congressional delegation says the Trump administration’s plan to take funds from military construction projects to build a border wall could hurt the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard and the New Hampshire National Guard.

5 years ago

That time the Chinese messed with our flag so we took their guns and used them to blow up their forts

Red, white and blew them up.

By Mark Simner, Military History

5 years ago

Why a Spanish frigate will help protect an American flattop

The Spanish frigate Méndez Núñez arrived in Norfolk on Monday to train alongside the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group.

By Mark D. Faram

5 years ago

Navy accuses yeoman of setting 2015 blaze

Yeoman 2nd Class Charmaine K. March has been charged with aggravated arson for her alleged role in a suspicious 2015 blaze at a two-story apartment building in Newport News.

By Mark D. Faram

5 years ago

Whatever happened to the Merrimack’s brass bell?

Well, it's complicated.

By Katherine Hafner, The Virginian-Pilot

5 years ago

Portsmouth Naval Shipyard getting new skipper

The Navy announced Thursday that it gave the nod to Capt. Daniel Ettlich, who currently serves as deputy for shipyard operations at the Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington, D.C.

5 years ago