May 2026 – Page 2 – JC's Naval and Military News – Past and Present

USS Thomas A. Edison (SSBN-610) underway in the Atlantic Ocean, 1962.

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Decatur (DDG-73) transits the Pacific Ocean with the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) in November 2025.

(U.S. Navy photo/Aaron Haro Gonzale

The future USS Utah (SSN 801) being floated off the pontoon in Graving Dock #3 at General Dynamics Electric Boat. May 17, 2026.

HMS Lincoln (F99). HMS Lincoln was a Salisbury-class or Type 61 aircraft direction frigate of the Royal Navy.

HMS Medway has arrived off Tristan da Cunha, carrying six civilian medics and critical supplies to support a British national suspected of contracting Hantavirus