Over 100 years ago, the U.S. Navy had its worst peace-time disaster, just south of the San Luis Obispo County line. Seven destroyers were wrecked and 23 sailors lost their lives when a squadron on a ...

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It was an epic failure of navigation, and the U.S. Navy’s worst peacetime naval disaster. On a foggy night a century ago, 14 destroyers of Squadron 11 made a 55-degree turn into what they thought was ...

Eighty years after explosions ripped through the Port Chicago naval facility in California, killing 320 sailors, Coast Guard personnel and civilians, the secretary of the Navy announced Wednesday the ...

Re “Fishing boat rescues aviators after Navy jet crashes into San Diego Bay” (Feb. 12): I am relieved that the two pilots were unharmed, but I am surprised to learn that they ejected upon takeoff, ...

The men had objected to working until safety concerns were addressed following an explosion at a port near San Francisco that claimed hundreds of lives. By John Ismay Reporting from Washington On July ...

Civil rights leaders and families of World War II veterans celebrated the long-awaited exonerations of 256 Black sailors who were wrongfully convicted after the 1944 Port Chicago explosion, a disaster ...

Children practicing preparedness drills. Photo: Courtesy Train 4 Safety Press Former Navy Commander Heather L Beal has found a new mission after 23 years of active service: launching a publishing ...