The Navy confirmed its first live-fire training exercise of its Global Autonomous Reconnaissance Craft uncrewed surface ...

A New Jersey fire rescue boat was sunk in a “harrowing” freak accident involving a whale, sending the whole crew overboard and in need of rescue themselves while the vessel was returning from New York ...

A blaze erupted aboard a container ship holding hazardous materials Friday night in the Port of Los Angeles, prompting the response of more than 100 firefighters. The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD ...

The Baltimore Fire Department is looking into how two rescue boats caught fire on the U.S. Naval Ship Charles L. Gilliland in the Patapsco River.

A cargo ship came under attack Sunday off the coast of Yemen in the Red Sea, the British military said, the latest maritime attack off the conflict-torn Arab country. The United Kingdom Maritime Trade ...

A major fire broke out aboard a cargo vessel carrying scrap metal at the port of Gdansk in northern Poland on Thursday evening, prompting a large-scale emergency response. Seventeen firefighting crews ...

A commercial container ship caught fire off the coast of Oman after sustaining damage on Saturday, prompting its crew to abandon the vessel, as tensions in the Strait of Hormuz escalated sharply after ...

Before modern weapons of mass destruction, there was Greek fire (ignis graecus). This was the term medieval Crusaders applied ...

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A fire that erupted Friday evening on a cargo ship docked at the Port of Los Angeles — requiring more than 180 firefighters to battle the blaze — is now “substantially contained,” according to a news ...

The aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford pulled into Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia, on July 7, 2026, in advance of its Planned Incremental Availability. (Shelby West/U.S. Navy) The ...