FALL RIVER — More than 500,000 people lined the shores of Narragansett Bay and the Taunton River on June 12, 1965, to welcome the battleship USS Massachusetts to the South Coast. They were cheering ...

For those who argue the likelihood of an afterlife, consider the USS Massachusetts. The rusting hulk of the first battleship named for the Bay State lies at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, yet lives ...

FALL RIVER — For the first time in over 50 years, the name Massachusetts will be given to an active Navy vessel. The most recent iteration of the USS Massachusetts, the South Dakota-class battleship ...

Touting large-caliber guns and torpedos, battleships carried intense firepower and heavy armor. With the advancement of military technology, the need for battleships dwindled. There are only eight US ...

FALL RIVER — History is a living thing in Fall River, where the waterfront is home to the world’s largest collection of naval vessels that saw action in war. Battleship Cove is a Fall River landmark, ...

The U.S. Navy began construction of its first fast battleships in 1937, with the two ships of the North Carolina class. The restrictions of the Washington and London Naval Treaties had imposed a ...

Key point: USS Massachusetts returned to the United States after the war, and decommissioned in 1947. The U.S. Navy began construction of its first fast battleships in 1937, with the two ships of the ...

Senator Elizabeth Warren’s office is set to announce Wednesday the state’s newest namesake, a nuclear attack submarine, the USS Massachusetts, to be commissioned, or put into active service in Boston, ...