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The US Navy has commissioned the future USS Santa Barbara (LCS 32) as the newest Independence-variant littoral combat ship (LCS).

The Pacific Northwest Coast has often been called “The Graveyard of the Pacific.” In January 1906 the area claimed the passenger steamer Valencia. This wreck has been called the most tragic maritime disaster in the region’s history. An Olympia street – Valencia Avenue – named to memorialize the ship has since been renamed.

Inflation is generally down from 2021, but is still high in too many places, and is expected to persist in 2023.   With inflation eroding value for this long, a Government contractor...

A local man has researched his links to the American Line.

Wreckage Is Not USS Chattanooga Friday, April 30, 2021 The story Wreckage Located In Tennessee River is in error. There is no way that the ship wreckage found is USS Chattanooga.  Both ships named USS Chattanooga were commissioned after the Civil War.   The first Chattanooga, a screw steamer, was launched Oct. 13, 1864 by William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia, Pa.; completed by the Philadelphia Navy Yard and commissioned May 16, 1866, Captain J. P. McKinstry in command. After final trials in August 1866, Chattanooga returned to the Navy Yard where she was decommissioned Sept. 3, 1866....