La Fayette (F710)
Since the age of sail France has been on the cutting edge, designing warships like the Napoleon I, the first warship ever to use a screw shaft propeller. The debut of the La Fayette-class would be no different. In 1985, the F...

Storozhevoi Korabl (Project 159)
The modern frigates are a class of ship built to hunt submarines. The Petya vessel was the name assigned by NATO for a class of light frigates built by the Soviet Union in the 1960's. The name designation given by the Sovie...

USS America (1782)
On November 9th, 1776, the Continental Congress authorized the construction and purchase of three 74-gun ships. The first of these men-of-war built for the Continental Navy became the USS America. Her construction started in...

USS Bonhomme Richard (1765)
The Duc de Duras, a 900 ton merchant ship built in France for the French East India Company in 1765, transported freight between the Orient and France. She was placed at the disposal of John Paul Jones and the Continental Nav...

USS Constitution
The USS Constitution was a product of changing times in America's policy. Fresh off of their independence war decades earlier, the US Navy found itself with nary a capable vessel of defending her merchant force and her intere...

USS Oliver Hazard Perry (FFG-7)
The USS Oliver Hazard Perry was the first guided missile frigate of her Oliver Hazard Perry-class of warships. Designed and constructed in the latter stages of the Cold War, the type was charged with direct action against ene...

USS United States (1797)
The Congressional Act to Provide Naval Armament (known as the Naval Act of 1794) was passed by the United States Congress on March 27, 1794. This act established the naval marine force, which became the United States Navy, a...