The minesweeper served in the U.S. Navy for over 20 years. A dedicated group of volunteers, veterans and history enthusiasts ...

The Stockton Maritime Museum will host a Fall Open House on Saturday of the UCC Lucid. Here's what to know before you go.

MANAMA, Bahrain — Sailors at a base home to the Navy’s hub in the Middle East bid farewell Thursday to the last of their wooden-hulled mine hunting ships in a mission handoff to four larger vessels ...

A noteworthy fact about the Avenger-class minesweepers is that their hulls are constructed of wood—so as to avoid metal hull detection technology in modern naval mines. The four warships have been ...

Japan’s largest minelayer practiced defending a chain of strategic islands near Taiwan last week in what Tokyo described as a ...

In 2013, the USS Guardian, a $212 million U.S. Navy minesweeper, ran aground on a protected reef in the Philippines. The incident left the ship stranded and damaged beyond repair, forcing crews to ...

Japan tracked several Russian and Chinese warships sailing on separate voyages near Japanese waters over the last week and tracked a Chinese Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and a Chinese Maritime Patrol ...