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World War II submarine USS Tang on the surface

How USS Tang was credited with sinking 31 ships on five patrols before one of her own torpedoes circled back and sank her on Oct. 24, 1944

The last torpedo USS Tang (SS-306) fired on her fifth war patrol did not run

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USS England destroyer escort underway, 1944

Over 12 days in May 1944, the destroyer escort USS England sank six Japanese submarines, a feat the Navy’s history office calls never duplicated

Six submarines in 12 days. That was the tally the destroyer escort USS England (DE-635)

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Navy blimp above a convoy of ships at sea

Of the 46,000 ships convoyed across the Atlantic from late 1939 to VE Day, about one in 174 was sunk, the Navy’s 1945 convoy history found

One ship in 174. That is the ratio of ships torpedoed and sunk that the

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Nuclear-powered carrier Enterprise with Long Beach and Bainbridge steaming in formation

How the nuclear-powered frigate USS Bainbridge steamed 30,565 miles around the world in 65 days during Operation Sea Orbit without a single refueling or replenishment

Two pressurized water reactors carried the guided-missile frigate USS Bainbridge (DLGN 25) around the globe

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Destroyer escort USS Slater moored on the Hudson River at Albany

Of the 563 destroyer escorts that battled Nazi U-boats in the Atlantic, USS Slater is the only one still afloat in the United States

On the Hudson River at Albany, N.Y., lies USS Slater (DE-766), the last of her

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Navy special boat crew in a fast boat beneath a Chinook helicopter

Navy special warfare boat crews filed 634 brain-injury exposure forms, and none of their medical records showed a completed concussion evaluation, the Pentagon’s inspector general found

Forms filed between 2020 and 2026 by crews of two Navy Special Boat Teams added

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Ticonderoga-class cruiser USS Robert Smalls at sea

USS Robert Smalls has left Yokosuka for a new homeport in San Diego, the last U.S. Navy cruiser to leave Japan after more than a decade forward-deployed there

Yokosuka no longer homeports a U.S. Navy cruiser. The Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Robert Smalls

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Destroyer USS Arleigh Burke DDG 51 arriving in port

USS Arleigh Burke entered dry dock at Spain’s Navantia shipyard in Cadiz on Oct. 7, the first time one of the Navy’s Europe-based destroyers has been dry-docked in the 6th Fleet area

A dry dock at Navantia’s shipyard in Cadiz, Spain, took in the guided-missile destroyer USS

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USS Pennsylvania (SSBN 735) returns to Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, Washington, after a strategic deterrence patrol on July 28, 2015, before its move to Kings Bay.

Ballistic missile submarines USS Pennsylvania and USS Wyoming arrived at swapped homeports in Georgia and Washington on Oct. 2 as the Navy prepares for the Columbia class

Two Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines have traded coasts. USS Pennsylvania (SSBN 735) arrived at its

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The cruiser USS Vicksburg underway with a helicopter overhead

The cruiser ex-Vicksburg left Philadelphia under tow for dismantling in Texas on Sept. 30, after a $754.1 million modernization that did not return her to service

Ex-Vicksburg, the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser that once carried hull number CG-69, is headed for the

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