As part of a Navy plan deal with a shortage of civilian mariners, 14 support ships have been sidelined. The plan ...

which now serves as a mothball facility for out-of-service Navy battleships and frigates, closed as a working shipyard in 1995 with the loss of about 7,500 jobs. Kvaerner will also provide ship ...

Kennedy will depart the Navy ... Yard in South Philadelphia on Thursday en route to Texas, where the decommissioned aircraft carrier will be scrapped, the U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command said. The ...

The retired Navy carrier is set to depart from South Philadelphia's Navy Yard around 9 a.m., and will ... 7, 1968, the USS JFK was the first Navy ship named for the famed president and "last ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Big changes are coming to the Philadelphia Navy Yard. The former USS John F ... worldwide for more than 39 years. The ship conducted 18 deployments including to the ...

Kennedy, has begun its journey as it heads south from the Philadelphia Navy Yard to the scrapyard ... Texas. The large ship will be towed through the Delaware River, through the Delaware Bay ...