Seven U.S. Navy vessels have been named the USS California since 1867. Perhaps the most famous is the fifth one, the Tennessee-class battleship given the identification number BB-44 (“Battleship #44”) ...

USS California was heavily damaged and sunk during the attack on Pearl Harbor, settling into the harbor mud as fires and flooding consumed the ship. Salvage crews faced an enormous challenge as they ...

NEW LONDON, Conn. (WTNH) — The Virginia-class fast-attack submarine USS California returned to Naval Submarine Base New London on Friday after a seven-month deployment to the U.S. European Command ...

This is the bell of the USS California, one of 8 battleships hit in the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The USS California was badly damaged by two aerial torpedoes and *** bomb. During ...

The remains of another sailor aboard the doomed USS California have been identified more than eight decades after the battleship was sunk during the attack on Pearl Harbor, U.S. officials confirmed on ...

Groton — The Virginia-class attack submarine USS California returned to the Naval Submarine Base on Friday and was joined by none other than Santa Claus, who hitched his usual ride. The vessel had ...

WASHINGTON (KFOR) – The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced on Thursday, Seaman 1st Class (S1c) Aaron L. McMurtrey, 27, of Durant, Oklahoma killed during World War II has been accounted ...