Mast Stepping: Prospective commanding officer for Bertholf (WMSL 750), Capt. Patrick Stadt (USCGC), sealed a box with coins into the mast of the first-of-class National Security Cutter. The coins ...

They christened the USS Carl Levin Saturday morning in New England. The naval destroyer named for Michigan's longest-serving senator was built in Bath, Maine and will be stationed in Hawaii, but Levin ...

PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- In keeping with an ancient mariner's custom, USS Arlington (LPD 24) Sailors and Marines "stepped the mast" of the amphibious transport dock in a ceremony on March 6, 2013. About ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – The USS George Washington celebrated the installment of its main mast with a “mast stepping ceremony” on Friday. They held the ceremony on the flight deck. Sailors placed different ...

Invoking millennia of maritime and shipbuilding tradition, USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), currently in drydock at Northrop Grumman Newport News shipyard, stepped its new mast March 6 in a solemn ceremony ...

Tomorrow, Americans from all around our country will join together to christen our Navy's newest ship in the city where it is being built: Mobile, Alabama. For the next half century -- long after many ...