The high seas were dangerous places during World War II, an unforgiving expanse where nations vied for supremacy, just as they fought each other on land and in the skies. Military ships of all types ...

In the vast expanse of the Aegean Sea (nearby Greece), an Allied squadron patrolling the waters encountered two Italian cruisers making a transfer from Tripoli to Leros, an Italian colony in the ...

The American landing on Guadalcanal on Aug. 7, 1942 and subsequent seizure of the airbase they would name Henderson Field marked the first American offensive in the wake of the Dec. 7, 1941 Japanese ...

The Australian heavy cruisers Shropshire (left) and Australia (right), with a U.S. heavy cruiser, photographed through a ring gun sight aboard the cruiser Phoenix, off Leyte on Oct. 21, 1944. (Navy ...

China's new Type 055 cruiser is its most modern and powerful surface combatant. The ship China labels as a destroyer is so large it compares more to US cruisers. China is building these ships fast ...

In August, the U.S. Navy struck one of its most powerful ships from the rolls of active duty, heading for a well-deserved retirement. USS Mobile Bay joined the fleet in 1987, and the service ...