The Navy secretary, John Phelan, was supposed to deliver the first of the president’s ships by 2028. The timeline was nearly impossible. By Greg Jaffe and Helene Cooper Reporting from Washington ...

THE PENTAGON – The Navy wants to buy the first Trump-class battleship in next year’s budget submission, a schedule that would allow the service to make the purchase before President Donald Trump ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The Battleship North Carolina Memorial has launched the Battleship Plate Project, a statewide initiative to secure 500 paid pre-orders for a new North Carolina specialty ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WWAY) — The Battleship North Carolina Memorial, a division of the NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, has launched the Battleship Plate Project, a statewide initiative ...

If you’ve ever been to Wilmington, you’ve likely seen her. She looms over the city’s downtown -- a symbol of state pride and national history. The Battleship North Carolina sits moored at the mouth of ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The U.S.S. North Carolina Battleship has announced that a recent workplace retaliation lawsuit has been resolved. In a lawsuit filed in April 2025, Christopher Vargo accused ...

The USS Massachusetts, a South Dakota-class battleship, earned 11 battle stars in World War II. It fired the first US 16-inch shell of World War II, and the last 16-inch shell of the war overall. The ...

After repeated threats in the Far East, Soviet planners transformed the salvaged main guns of a battleship into a permanent coastal weapon. Embedded deep inside a mountain near Vladivostok, the ...

Built for decisive firepower, this battleship was deployed with a singular purpose: to annihilate enemy defenses and break resistance. Its guns pummeled strategic targets day after day, reshaping ...

It is virtually impossible to name a single initiative of Donald Trump’s that isn’t either supremely stupid or downright satanic. From dismantling public health to pardoning criminals who ransacked ...

The first Trump-class “battleship” ordered up by the White House could cost as much as $22 billion, and could cut into the Navy’s plans for next-generation destroyers, Congressional researchers said ...

The Trump-class Battleship probably won't get built, but the hull could serve as a basis for much-needed logistical ships. America’s new battleship is unlikely to survive President Donald Trump’s ...