Utrecht, Netherlands, headquartered heavy lift specialist Mammoet is to play a key role in the Navy’s largest maritime infrastructure construction project since World War II, the planned five-year Pearl Harbor dry dock replacement project.
Under the project, as we reported earlier, a new graving dock, Dry Dock 5, is being built. Capable of servicing Virginia-class submarine, it will replace the shipyard’s smaller Dry Dock 3, which was...
Lt. Cmdr. Travis Myers, Red Hill Recovery Filtration System lead, Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command, gives media a tour of the Red Hill on Jan. 28, 2022. US Navy Photo
The Pentagon wants more time to weigh its options before it complies with an order from the Hawaii state government to drain the fuel out of a strategically important resupply hub at Red Hill, department officials said this week.
The Hawaii Department of Health issued an emergency order in December to drain the tanks of...
Mr. Ronald G. Scharfe, a World War II veteran, observes the USS Arizona Memorial during a World War II veterans harbor tour as part of the 80th Anniversary Pearl Harbor Remembrance on Dec. 5. US Navy Photo
A reminder of the attack on Pearl Harbor sits in the office of Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro.
It is the ship’s bell from USS Vestal (AR-4), a repair ship that was at the naval station when the Japanese attacked 80 years ago.
During the attacks, six sailors were trapped in a fire control...
It’s been 71 years since Japan attacked the U.S. military base at Pearl Harbor, the single catastrophic event that launched the United States into World War II. Today we remember December 7th, 1941 – a date which will live in infamy. RIP shipmates.
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This is the top of the mast
that once towered more than a hundred feet over Nevada’s deck. Ocean Infinity/SEARCH Photo
USS Nevada (BB-36) – dubbed the “unsinkable battleship” that served in two world wars – was found nearly three miles below the water’s surface about 65 nautical miles southwest of Pearl Harbor, a team of researchers announced Monday.
On Dec. 7, 1941, Nevada was the only battleship to get underway during the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. After extensive...
Doris Miller in 1942. US Navy Photo
The third Ford-class carrier will be named in honor of World War II icon Doris Miller, the first black recipient of the Navy Cross, Navy officials confirmed to USNI News on Saturday.
The naming of CVN-81 is expected to be announced during a Monday ceremony in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii by Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly, USNI News has learned.
The Honolulu Star-Advertiser first reported the news of the ceremony and the carrier name on Saturday.
Miller was widely...