Jack Lawler Jr. wants to park a 52-year-old aircraft carrier next to Fort McHenry in Baltimore City?s harbor. The USS Forrestal, commissioned in 1955 and considered the first super carrier, could ...
Here’s What You Need to Remember: As they each approached forty years of service, the Forrestals were decommissioned one-by-one between 1993 and 1998—but stayed busy right until then. In 1993, Ranger ...
A group of veterans who served on the nation?s first supercarrier are abandoning ship ? literally. After a decade of fighting to bring the nation?s first supercarrier to Baltimore as a floating museum ...
As of Tuesday evening, the U.S. Navy announced that it had made “significant progress” toward putting out the fire on the USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6), a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship. While it ...
A bell rang 134 times Monday on the east knoll of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, each peal in memory of a sailor who died aboard the USS Forrestal 35 years ago. The aircraft carrier was in the Gulf of ...