there has been only a single vessel named USS United States – it was one of the original six frigates that served as the core of the U.S. Navy in the first half of the 19th century. Three other ...

The Navy is in no way prepared to meet the challenges the United States faces today. One of the Navy’s biggest recent failures concerns the new Constellation-class frigate. Built for ...

Quartermaster 1st Class Alex Guenther, a Schuylkill County native, is on assignment aboard the world’s oldest commissioned ...

and in March 1794 Congress responded by calling for the construction of a half-dozen frigates, The United States Navy was here to stay.