On the My Tho river, South Vietnam, Oct. 14, 1968: Seaman and gunner Stephen Artz is silhouetted sitting atop a U.S. Navy patrol boat. Artz was part of a flame river patrol boat patrolling the My Tho ...

Today in U.S. 1832 - Frigate Potomac is first U.S. 1864 - R.Adm. 1882 - Authorizing of first steel warships, beginning of the modern Navy. 1915 - First air spotting for shore batteries at Fort Monroe, ...

Louisiana-based boatbuilder Metal Shark has been awarded a U.S. government contract to build 13 patrol boats for Vietnam, with options for additional vessels. The contract extends the historic, now de ...

Lee Wahler saw a wrapped boat at the Washington Navy Yard that he thought he recognized. Command, headquartered on the yard, approached the owner of the boat, the Naval Historical Center, to confirm ...