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Why did the US Navy sink the USS Dubuque during the world’s largest naval exercise?

On July 11, 2024, the U.S. Navy deliberately sent a former warship to the bottom of the Pacific during the world’s largest naval exercise. The decommissioned amphibious transport dock USS Dubuque was ...
WIS TV

Moment of Science: What sank the SS Edmund Fitzgerald?

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - November marks the anniversary of the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, one of the largest ships to ever sail the Great Lakes. Throughout its career, it earned nicknames like ...
SlashGear

What It Means When A Ship Is Scuttled (And Why It Happened So Often In WWII)

Warships being hit by enemy fire and sinking to the bottom of the sea is, as you may have gathered, a big part of naval combat. And it's been that way throughout its entire history, even as some ...
CNN

In torpedoing an enemy warship, the US Navy just did something it hasn’t done in eight decades

The sinking of an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka this week is something a US Navy submarine hasn’t done in more than 80 years and is another indication that Washington’s war with Tehran is ...