U.S. Navy

<p><span class="deck">America’s naval tradition is as old as America itself, and an amazing number of the ships that forged it are still afloat.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Not until the Civil War was about over did the U.S. Navy manage to put a halt to the South’s imports</span> </span></p>

<p>Tall ships and U.S. Navy vessels sailed into Baltimore Harbor past Fort McHenry to commemorate the bicentennial of the War of 1812.</p>

<p>When the first African-Americans to crew a U.S. warship sailed into the war-tossed North Atlantic, they couldn't have known it would take 50 years to gain honor in their own country.</p>

<p>In the early 1950s, top-secret efforts led to the first submarine trips to the North Pole by USS <em>Nautilus</em> and USS <em>Skate</em> in 1957 – dramatic successes that rivaled the Soviet Union's Sputnik that year – and shifted the balance of strategic power.</p>

<p>The<em> USS Nevada</em> was the only battleship to get underway during the attack at Pearl Harbor. The recent discovery of the ship's hull has revived interest in her dramatic story.</p>

<p>The recent discovery of the hull of the battleship <em>Nevada</em> recalls her dramatic action at Pearl Harbor and ultimate revenge on D-Day as the first ship to fire on the Nazis.</p>