On Nov. 30, 1942, the USS New Orleans was in the middle of a pitched battle off of Guadalcanal. A Japanese torpedo scored a ...

On a dark night with no moon and heavily overcast skies on Nov. 30, 1942, the USS New Orleans was one of 11 cruisers and ...

The USS New Orleans was at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, and responded to the Japanese air attack. Later, the vessel pulled ...

PHILIPPINES, BATTLE OF LEYTE GULF, WORLD WAR, 1939-1945, WORLD WAR II, WWII, AMPHIBIOUS OPERATIONS, JAPANESE NAVAL FORCES, UNITED STATES NAVY, THIRD FLEET, SEVENTH FLEET, HALSEY, WILLIAM F., KINKAID, ...

As dawn painted the Pacific red, the heavy cruiser Maya prowled the seas as a symbol of Imperial Japan’s naval dominance. In ...

Egyptian authorities say an oil-drilling ship capsized in the Gulf of Suez, killing at least four crewmen and leaving four others missing. They say the drilling ship overturned Tuesday evening off ...

In late 1944, during the fierce Battle of Leyte Gulf, USS Princeton was locked in combat, her Hellcats swarming the skies to repel waves of Japanese aircraft threatening the fleet. As the US ...

Japan's Nippon Yusen and Mitsui O.S.K. Lines said on Monday they have instructed their vessels to minimise the time spent in the Gulf as they continue to transit the Strait of Hormuz following the ...

Gulf states, home to multiple U.S. military bases, were on high alert on Sunday with their leaders calling on all parties to exercise maximum restraint followingU.S. strikes on Iranthat raised the ...