While America's massive fleet of aircraft carriers is difficult to sink, they are sadly not unsinkable. The title of this article refers to Midway Atoll as an "Unsinkable Aircraft Carrier," but as ...

1785 - The order is given to sell the last ship remaining in the Continental Navy, the frigate Alliance. No other Navy ships are authorized until 1794. 1898 - During the Spanish-American War, the ...

Two crew members of a U.S. Coast Guard HC-130 Hercules aircraft safely secure a Hawaiian Monk Seal for transport. The Coast Guard 14th District partnered with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

On Thursday the Coast Guard completed the medical evacuation of a 52-year-old man from Midway Atoll. At 10 a.m. Tuesday morning the Coast Guard Joint Rescue Coordination Center Honolulu received ...

Nancy Caruso sat on an island in the North Pacific Ocean just inches from an albatross and watched as the large black-and-white seabird with a 12-foot wingspan added grass to its nest to cover up a ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- There was a big scare in the sky right over the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Alarms went off inside a United Airlines plane as a burning smell filled the cabin. The plane, which ...

Today in U.S. Naval History - January 20 1783 - Hostilities cease between Great Britain and the United States 1903 - Theodore Roosevelt issues Executive Order placing Midway Islands under jurisdiction ...

Midway Atoll, North Pacific Ocean (CNN) -- The distance from humanity yawns out in front of you when you stand on the pale sands of this tiny Pacific island. Midway Atoll is just about the furthest ...

I REMEMBER well one particular summer day on Midway Island. There was no wind, and the sun was hot. I was watching a game of tennis. Flowering vines were growing on the backstops; pairs of fairy terns ...

On Feb. 1, around 200 people gathered at Captain Bill’s Bayview House in Bay Shore for a meeting hosted by the Long Island Business Development Council. Derek Trulson, a vice chairman of the New York ...

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