WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The Battleship North Carolina Memorial has launched the Battleship Plate Project, a statewide initiative to secure 500 paid pre-orders for a new North Carolina specialty ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WWAY) — The Battleship North Carolina Memorial, a division of the NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, has launched the Battleship Plate Project, a statewide initiative ...

If you’ve ever been to Wilmington, you’ve likely seen her. She looms over the city’s downtown -- a symbol of state pride and national history. The Battleship North Carolina sits moored at the mouth of ...

The image of a mighty battleship, its colossal guns trained on an unseen enemy, evokes a sense of raw power and historical grandeur. For generations, these steel behemoths were the undisputed kings of ...

From the 1890s through the World War II, battleships ruled the waves. These steel leviathans projected naval power across all the world's seas, clashing with other ships or bombarding enemy forces ...

President Donald Trump went on a bonkers riff about battleships in which he waxed poetic about their butter-knife-like qualities and longed to recreate a key plot point of the Hasbro movie Battleship.

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The U.S.S. North Carolina Battleship has announced that a recent workplace retaliation lawsuit has been resolved. In a lawsuit filed in April 2025, Christopher Vargo accused ...

The USS Massachusetts, a South Dakota-class battleship, earned 11 battle stars in World War II. It fired the first US 16-inch shell of World War II, and the last 16-inch shell of the war overall. The ...

Though battleships saw extensive and meritorious service in World War II, the conflict exposed their weaknesses against the rising power of the aircraft carrier. For the first half of the 20th century ...

The first signal that Battleship Texas is entering the home stretch of its eventual move to Galveston's Pier 15 could come as early as this summer. But even then, it'll be a while before the historic ...

President Trump says modern U.S. ships are “ugly” — not ugly in the damage they can do to the enemy, but aesthetically ugly to what he believes is an expert eye. Hence, the commander-in-chief has ...

Built for decisive firepower, this battleship was deployed with a singular purpose: to annihilate enemy defenses and break resistance. Its guns pummeled strategic targets day after day, reshaping ...