In the 1980s, the U.S. considered converting four Iowa-class battleships into "battlecarriers," blending battleship firepower ...

A mystery beginning in the South Atlantic and ending in South Kensington has finally been solved. The century-long story of ...

The USS Missouri, an Iowa-class battleship, is celebrated as one of the most iconic American warships. Commissioned during ...

International Guns, Missiles and Rockets Project Team has decided to award Leonardo a £14m ($18m) contract for the gun system ...

The top naval official in Alaska was Cmdr. E. C. Merriman. Three days before the bombardment, a harpoon gun on board a whaling ship exploded, killing Téel ’ Tlein, a Tlingit medicine man and ...

The Navy officially apologized to the Tlingit community for a bombardment that wiped out an Alaskan village in 1882.

Klane was killed when a harpoon gun exploded on a whaling ship owned by his employer, the North West Trading Co. The Navy's version says tribal members forced the vessel to shore, possibly took ...

who was killed aboard a whaling ship by an exploding harpoon gun. According to the Naval Heritage and History Command, accounts from the time say members of the Tlingit tribe forced the whaling ...

The U.S. Navy officially apologized this week for the bombardment of Angoon, a native Alaskan village, in 1882.