Off Guadalcanal, under Rear Admiral Willis A. Lee, Jr., Washington learned of the approach of three large Japanese ship groups on November 13, 1942. Task Force 64, which included Washington, USS South ...

A catastrophic fire swept the forward sections of the USS Miami, a Los Angeles-class nuclear submarine, while she was in dry dock at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, on May 23, 2012.