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US warship to be named after Filipino sailor

ABS-CBN North America Bureau
Updated as of May 20 08:59 AM

History was made today after US Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro announced that a US warship will be named after Filipino Fireman Second Class Telesforo Trinidad. Read more »

Chinese navy sails new destroyers in South China Sea amid military shipbuilding spree

Liu Zhen, South China Morning Post
Posted at Jun 16 05:01 AM

So rapid is the Chinese navy’s expansion, it is running out of big cities to name the warships after.  Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: April 6, 2021

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Aug 16 03:37 PM

Here are the day's top stories in photos. Read more »

USS Johnston (DD-557), deepest shipwreck recorded, found off Samar Island

Caladan Oceanic/ AFP Photo
Posted at Apr 06 11:39 AM

This handout photograph taken on March 31, 2021 and released on April 3, 2021 by Caladan Oceanic shows the main wreckage of the USS Johnston (DD-557), a US Navy Fletcher-class destroyer that sank during the Battle of Samar in World War II, resting on the ocean floor off Samar Island in the Philippines.  Read more »

Japan sends destroyer after China’s Liaoning aircraft carrier group spotted passing Okinawa

Kinling Lo, South China Morning Post
Posted at Apr 05 10:37 PM

Japan sent destroyer JS Suzutsuki and a patrol aircraft to monitor and gather information on the Chinese navy group. Beijing’s new coastguard law, which allows Chinese ships to fire on foreign vessels, is intensifying tension with Tokyo. Read more »

'Deepest wreck dive' reaches US WWII ship off Philippines

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 04 01:54 PM

A US navy destroyer sunk during World War II and lying nearly 6,500 meters below sea level off the Philippines has been reached in the world's deepest shipwreck dive, an American exploration team said. Read more »

Large Chinese destroyer spotted in waters near Japan

Kyodo News
Updated as of Mar 21 08:58 AM

The Renhai-class vessel is among China's largest naval destroyers and Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force confirmed the ship in waters near Japan for the first time, the ministry's Joint Staff said.   Read more »

Russia catches US warship in its waters, chases it off - defense ministry

Reuters
Posted at Nov 24 03:37 PM

A Russian warship caught a US Navy destroyer operating illegally in Russia's territorial waters near the Sea of Japan, but chased it off, Russia's defense ministry said on Tuesday.   Read more »

US Navy destroyer sunk in World War II is found 20,000 feet under the sea

Neil Vigdor, The New York Times
Posted at Nov 06 08:42 AM

75 years after the Battle of Leyte Gulf, a private underwater expedition discovered the wreckage of one of the destroyers sunk during the battle, which researchers believe to be the USS Johnston DD-557. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: September 2, 2019

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 02 11:56 PM

Here are the day's big stories in photos. Read more »

ROKS Munmu the Great now in Philippines

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 02 04:10 PM

The Philippine Navy band performs during a welcome ceremony for South Korean Navy destroyer ROKS Munmu the Great (DDH-976) as it docks at the port of Manila on Monday. Read more »