Royal Marines took aim at the engine of a boat suspected of drug smuggling while flying in HMS Lancaster's Wildcat helicopter ...

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The two ships will join the UK task force based in the Gulf. Sandown Class HMS Shoreham left her home port of HM Naval Base Clyde, while Hunt Class HMS Atherstone left her home of Portsmouth. En route ...

U.S. Navy expeditionary sea base USS Lewis B. Puller (ESB 3), fleet ocean tug USNS Catawba (T-ATF 168), Avenger-class mine countermeasures ship USS Sentry (MCM 3), Island-class coastal patrol boats ...

The HMS Argyll, HMS Shoreham and the mine countermeasures ship USS Dextrous (MCM 13) participate in the bilateral Mine Countermeasures Exercise 2020 (MCMEX 20) with the mine countermeasures ship USS ...

Gov. Francis Nicholson was nothing if not a man of action. Long before coming to Virginia in 1698, he’d shown his mettle time and time again, fighting Moors in North Africa, English rebels at the ...

In August 1699, Gov. Gen. Francis Nicholson of Virginia had concerns about pirate activity in the Chesapeake Bay. He directed the commanders of local militia to appoint coast watchers in the counties ...

One of Hampton’s earliest claims to fame was the fact that the head of Blackbeard the Pirate, who was killed by a British naval officer, was hung on a pole near the entrance to Hampton Creek. The site ...