Rising Tides is an opinion column about Mobile. Today’s guest columnist is Larry Ryder. Twenty years ago, Austal USA started construction of its first Independence-class Littoral Combat Ship, the USS ...

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Explore the story of the Liberty Ship, a vessel that played a crucial role in World War II by transforming supply chains and boosting Allied logistics. Its innovative design and mass production helped ...

The Midway-class aircraft carrier was instrumental in American naval operations around the world spanning from the end of ...

Crossing the Atlantic in the 15 th century was no easy feat. But the Vikings did it 500 years earlier. Larry Potash unearths this story about a replica ship that took the world by storm at Chicago’s ...

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The last of the ships that some credit with winning World War II for the Allies has plowed through the waters of the Midwest, where people got a chance to visit it. A type of ship that's credited with ...