Freedom drew ever closer. A monument to Union Navy Capt. Robert Smalls, a former slave, sits outside the Tabernacle Baptist Church in Beaufort, S.C. (Wikimedia Commons) “As she neared us ...

“My dad served four years on the USS Chancellorsville (now known as the USS Robert Smalls) as a radar operator,” said Mann ... “My dad was in the navy,” said Gorman. “My grandpa did three tours in ...

COLUMBIA — A group studying where to put South Carolina's first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls' statue should be staring down a notorious white ...

BEAUFORT, S.C. (WTOC) - According to the Beaufort Police Department, there is a large police presence in the area of Robert Smalls Parkway and Neil Road. Police say you may see a large presence in the ...

The Robert Smalls statue will face the State House and the George Washington statue. But the location in the northeast quadrant of the grounds between the African American history monument and the ...

Ford, is seen here traversing through the Strait of Gibraltar on Jan. 5, 2024. (MC2 Jacob Mattingly/U.S. Navy) The Navy announced Monday it will name a pair of future vessels after two previous ...

Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti set a goal for the Navy last fall that she conceded might be a little aspirational: to have 80 percent of the Navy’s fleet ready to deploy at any ...

The Navy wants to buy its first next-generation guided missile destroyer by 2032, but first there are there are some details that need to be hammered out for replacing the trusty Arleigh Burke ...

President Joe Biden announced Monday that two future Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers would be named after former US Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. "Each knows firsthand the ...

He said 33 ships and seven submarines have been inducted into the Navy in the last 10 years. India's defence production has crossed Rs 1.25 lakh crore and defence equipment have been exported to ...

Speaking at a Navy conference in Arlington, Virginia, the commander of the service's surface forces, Vice Adm. Brendan McLane, told a crowd of mostly Navy officers who gathered for a panel on the ...