Picture this: a colossal warship worth half a billion dollars facing down 40-foot waves that would turn most vessels into twisted metal. While Mother Nature unleashes her fury, this engineering marvel ...

The newest ship in the Navy, the USS Pierre, was commissioned Saturday in Panama City, Fla.: “Welcome to the fleet,” said Navy Secretary John Phelan, who gave the keynote address. Pierre is the 19th ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The USS Pierre littoral combat ship sails into Panama City, Florida. The U.S. Navy commissioned the 19th and final ...

As the sun rose Friday morning in Mobile, the last of 19 Littoral Combat Ships built by Austal USA stood ready for its final departure. The moment could be described as the end of an era for the city.

Rising Tides is an opinion column about Mobile. Today’s guest columnist is Larry Ryder. Twenty years ago, Austal USA started construction of its first Independence-class Littoral Combat Ship, the USS ...

“An experiment that didn’t work,” said another. And an expensive one. The price of the program is pegged at $60 billion, but a 2023 report from the investigative journalism site ProPublica said the ...

June 11, 2026: Last month the American Navy has commissioned USS Cleveland/LCS 31, the last of 35 LCS/Littoral Combat Ships ships. Two years ago, the Navy decided to reverse its plan to quickly ...