Rob Bluey is president and executive editor of The Daily Signal. Send an email to Rob. The USS Essex keeps making news for all the wrong reasons. The amphibious assault ship was unable to complete two ...

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The Navy has fired the commander of the Navy assault ship Essex which collided with a Navy oil supply ship at sea last month, the Navy Times reported Tuesday. Capt. Chuck Litchfield was relieved of ...

American literature’s most annoying classic was inspired by real-life events. Herman Melville based his epically digressive Moby-Dick on an 1820 incident in which a monster whale turned on a Nantucket ...

America’s Essex-class aircraft carriers were the backbone of U.S. naval power in World War II’s Pacific War and stayed ...

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ARABIAN GULF The amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD-2) transits the Arabian Gulf during flight operations on Nov. 13. US Navy Photo An Iranian Navy helicopter came within 25 feet of the USS Essex ...

Nov. 20, 1820: The Nantucket whaleship Essex was sunk by a massive sperm whale off the coast of South America — an infamous disaster that would inspire Herman Melville’s classic novel “Moby-Dick.” ...

The USS Essex, an amphibious assault ship that had once fought Japanese forces in the Pacific, is now part of a relief operation providing supplies and logistical support to Japan. The effort is ...