The USS Niagara sat at rest Wednesday, its rigging set to sail to starboard and its long guns, cannons and carronades in position for battle. Or rather, they would have been had the brig been about 64 ...

DECATUR - Walk down the stairs in the Adam Troxell Sr. home in Decatur and cast an eye upon a massive model ship. Extending over each end of a 7-foot pool table, the World War II battleship USS New ...

For 32 years, a 10-foot model of the battleship USS Louisiana has been taking shape — slowly, painstakingly — in Dr. Ron Kennedy's Baton Rouge workshop. Now, in time to celebrate 100 years since World ...

While all eyes are on the new-generation ships, filled with state-of-the-art technical features and boasting impressive looks, we must never forget the old vessels that paved the way for these young ...

Sixteen years ago, members of the Tulsa Ship Modelers Society completed a 1/48 scale model of the USS Tulsa, a Navy gunboat that was in service during the years between the world wars. On Wednesday, ...

LA PORTE, Texas -- As of Aug. 1, the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department has transferred operational control of the historical Battleship Texas in La Porte to the nonprofit Battleship Texas Foundation ...

A hefty slice of U.S. Naval history has arrived in the City of Brotherly Love via the South Carolina Lowcountry, after a brief stop in New Jersey. A 600-pound, Navy-made brass model of the famed ...