The U.S. Navy has dedicated one of its Japan-based guided missile destroyers to ailing U.S. Sen. John McCain. Navy Secretary Richard Spencer added the Arizona Republican's name to the USS John S ...

Damage to the portside is visible as the Guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain (DDG 56) steers towards Changi naval base in Singapore following a collision with the merchant vessel Alnic MC ...

YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — A change-of-command ceremony here Tuesday for the USS John S. McCain was “bittersweet” for the widow of one of the destroyer’s three namesakes. It was Cindy ...

About a dozen sailors in all are facing some punishment, including all of the destroyer's watch, the Navy said. The USS John S. McCain has played a small role in recent tensions with North Korea ...

The fuss over the USS John S. McCain started when the he White House sent emails to the Navy before the president's visit to Japan requesting that the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer — named after ...

YOKOSUKA, Japan —USS John S. McCain (DDG 56) achieved a major milestone this week as it successfully launched from dry dock and moored pierside at Commander, Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Nov. 27.

The destroyer John S. McCain is named after the senator, as well as his grandfather, John S. McCain Sr., a Navy admiral during World War II, and his father, John S. McCain Jr., an admiral in the ...

“The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain conducted a routine Taiwan Strait transit Feb. 4 in accordance with international law,” reads a U.S. 7th Fleet statement.

The USS John S. McCain now has a third namesake in honor of Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona. The destroyer was commissioned in 1994 and was named in honor of McCain’s father and ...

A U.S. guided-missile destroyer bears the name of Sen. John McCain, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam, presidential nominee and longtime senator. On the warship, he joins the names of his father ...

It was not immediately clear how the USS John S. McCain, which is 505 feet in length, collided with the 600-foot Alnic MC. The destroyer was on its way to a routine port visit in Singapore at the ...