The U.S. Navy’s system of naming ships is in disarray. The process for carriers, cruisers, destroyers, submarines, and amphibious ships was upended with little consistency many years ago. The Navy has ...

Rules for giving certain types of names to certain types of Navy ships have evolved over time. Attack submarines, for example, were once named for fish, then later for cities, and most recently (in ...

This month, a welder at a Virginia shipyard etched the keel plate of the USS Barb, the ceremonial birthing of a new submarine. The Virginia-class fast attack submarine joins hundreds of Navy subs ...